Review
Review of Gargoyle, Fall 2011 by Becky Tuch
In the coming months it will be interesting to see what sort of effect the Occupy movement might have on literature. Or, beyond the movement itself, how will our literature change in the face of America's precarious economic situation? For to read the literature of the past—even five or six years ago past—is to read narratives wholly different from the realities of today.
To a contemporary reader, a novel such as Revolutionary Road for example, that 1950s bastion of beautifully rendered middle-class angst, might seem woefully out of touch. Today’s middle...
