Flushing Ayn Rand

The Book of Ayn, the latest novel from the Australian writer Lexi Freiman, follows Anna, a novelist who is relegated to the outskirts of literary society after a New York Times reviewer pans her book for being “classist.” Even as Freiman skewers the closed-mindedness of the publishing world, she points up the follies of bootstrapping ideologues, reminding us that the cure can sometimes be as bad as the disease.