This year I keep coming across a line of Stendhal’s: “Politics in a literary work, is like a gunshot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.” It pops up in Lisa Halliday’s recent Asymmetry, and it was in my head as I was reading Rachel Kushner’s new novel of incarceration, The Mars Room. When a particular quotation keeps appearing before your eyes, it must be speaking to the times. Photo: Ricardo DeAratanha/LA Times via Getty Images Novelist Rachel Kushner, at home in Los Angeles, 2013.
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