The Reluctant Wokester

The writer Mohsin Hamid has made a literary career of topical novels addressing elite, liberal preoccupations, often beautifully. He is known for the 9/11 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2008), mock self-help book How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), and 2017’s Exit West, about the European migration crisis. His latest, The Last White Man, published this month, takes on white privilege, with the speculative exploration of what would happen if people with white skin started turning dark-skinned.