We may live in a state of prosecutorial overcorrection, but I think it’s a dialectical response to the fact that the default position for a certain kind of celebrity scientist has usually been ferocious, uncritical defense.

In her recent book, Dangerous Fictions, Lyta Gold writes: [Philip] Roth has long been stereotyped as one of the “lit bro” white male midcentury novelists; this is largely undeserved, especially as Roth wasn’t perceived in his own context as an … Continue reading → …