![]() ![]() “What does this have to do with socialism?”īut there is a world of wonder and delight - and meaning and political engagement - in finding ways to bridge the gap between the two.Įlif Batuman, author of the semiautobiographical 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Idiot, ponders the relationship between art and politics in her new sequel, Either/Or. “Why are you writing about this?” these frustrated readers ask. Here at Jacobin, for example, we are frequently criticized by angry commenters whenever we publish on popular culture. Artists are looked down upon as frivolous by those engaged in political organizing activists are perceived as single-minded philistines with poor taste. Living a political life and an artistic one has long been considered mutually exclusive. Review of Either/Or by Elif Batuman (Penguin Press, 2022) ![]()
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