Literary Review

HORRIFIED BY THE cultural illiteracy of American undergraduates, a French intellectual fumes in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain that, ‘By the time she was their age, she’d seen all the Kurosawas, all the Tarkovskys, all the Fellinis, all the Antonionis, all the Fassbinders, all the Wertrniillers, all the Satyajit Rays . . . and all […]