Mimetic Polyamory

Polyamory is in the air. In the last few months on a seemingly weekly quota, the literary world has been churning out pieces on this topic, culminating in the publication of Molly Roden Winter’s memoir, More. And there’s that recent Zendaya threesome movie (that’s apparently a bit of a bait-and-switch). All this to make polyamory seem as if it’s some new, brash, and exciting thing. But it just made me think of The Ice Storm, a bestselling novel and acclaimed movie from the 90s (that’s set in the 70s).