American Non-Psycho

The writer Bret Easton Ellis, whose new novel The Shards was published Tuesday, has distinguished himself in the past decade by being one of a very few marquee literary novelists to push back against speech policing and liberal orthodoxy. It’s an incredible thing to consider that writers—once truth-tellers and rabble-rousers, beats and system-breakers—have been forced into such conformity that we have just a handful willing to dissent; Ellis claims to be mostly joking.