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For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

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One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift for storytelling. I also loved immersing myself in works of nonfiction that taught me something about the world, that made the past come alive or shed light on hidden corners of history or the news.

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Trump tapped into a lot of middle-class and working-class disillusion with the political establishment and into economic worries and resentments that ballooned in the wake of the 2008 financial crash.

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It's important that communities support local, independent journalism, which many people rely upon for information relevant to their daily lives.

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Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.

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I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was a fire hazard.

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The one genre I'm not really into: self-help books.

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I'm pretty omnivorous - in fact, I don't think of books in terms of genres. J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books are no more Y.A. reading, to me, than John le Carre's 'Smiley' novels are spy stories.

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I was the kid in class who was afraid to get called on.

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I find it hard to write in the first person.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: January 9th, 1955

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