Canceling Philip Roth … And His Biographer
When Philip Roth died in 2018 at age 85, all eyes turned to Blake Bailey, his appointed biographer who’d been hard at work on a Roth biography already for several years. Roth fans such as myself looked...
View ArticleAnne Rice: The Good Witch Cancelled
I was on a beach in Brazil two Christmases ago when I heard that Anne Rice had died suddenly of a stroke. The news had been posted on her son, the novelist Christopher Rice’s, Facebook page. I was...
View ArticleThe Trials of Salman Rushdie
On August 12, 2022, a 24-year-old California-born Islamist named Hadi Matar rushed the stage of the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York where novelist Salman Rushdie was about to speak, stabbing...
View ArticleNikki Haley Passes the History Test
Last week in New Hampshire, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley got ambushed with a question on, of all things, the Civil War. Here we go again. When asked what caused the Civil War, Haley...
View ArticleWhen Voltaire Fell Victim to France’s Woke Mob
In June 2020, as peaceful protesters burned city after city as part of their ongoing Summer of Love, Europe watched on warily as the love threatened to spread across the pond and soon did, in the...
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