Questioning a radical change
Jul 29, 2022
2 minutes
BY CADY LANG
THE OPENING OF MOHSIN HAMID’S The Last White Man, arriving Aug. 2, invokes Franz Kafka’s Gregor Samsa—but with a metamorphosis fitting for the racially charged era in which we live. “One morning,” Hamid writes, “Anders, a white man, woke up to find he had turned a deep and undeniable brown.”
At first Anders’ surreal transformation upends his world; he
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