Future imperfect
Jan 07, 2022
3 minutes
By Alex Clark
n the final section of Hanya Yanagihara’s tripartite novel, there is an episode that functions as an emblem of the book’s intricately assembled themes and intensely anxious preoccupations. Having already been immersed in narratives set in the 19th and 20th centuries, the reader is now taken far into the 21st, an era in which pandemics sweep the globe in waves, each time altering the civic and political order. As a new virus threatens to take hold, a mother isolates her twin sons, survivors of an
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