No sooner had American culture bid its sober official farewell to irony than the literary world veered headlong yet again into the gruesome (yet ever comforting) ironies of cultural warfare. The occasion was novelist Jonathan Franzen’s widely publicized affront to Oprah Winfrey, who had made his novel TheCorrections the choice of her book club for […]
Chris Lehmann
Chris Lehmann is features editor for the New York Magazine.
