BEN LERNER MIGHT BE the youngest writer in America who is permitted to write with luminous intelligence about erudite, urbane intellectuals without being accused of insularity. The American scribblers younger than Lerner are consigned to a fate of feigned populism or critical sniffing at anything that might pass for a sign of intelligence. He is that strange thing, the youngest major American writer, and perhaps also the last writer that our critical and cultural firmament has allowed to be unabashedly serious.
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Mediations in an Emergency
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