His best-known series, “The Wire,” was a five-season lament for American cities. His website is titled “The Audacity of Despair.”Simon’s confident, chilling adaptation stuck largely to Roth’s story, with few changes. The final sequence begins on Election Day, 1942, which, because history has a sense of humor, was Nov. 3, just like this year’s. As Old Blue Eyes keeps singing (“A certain word / Democracy”), a few discordant notes begin to sound. We cut to that evening, in the living room of the Levins, the Jewish family the story was told through.

Source: New York Times September 01, 2020 18:11 UTC