I’m old enough to remember when a vocal minority of self-appointed cultural gatekeepers called for a ban on American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis’s brilliant satire of Reaganite greed. The tone of that vocal minority — censuring, paranoid, anti-intellectual — is now the dominant tenor of our times. Easton Ellis, author of White, Knopf Doubleday. ( Casey Nelson ) White, by Bret Easton Ellis, Knopf Doubleday, 272 pages, $34.95. But like all of Ellis’s work, White is informed by a febrile, unflinching vision rare in any era.

Source: thestar April 25, 2019 11:03 UTC