Anti-Captain Ahab Moralizers are Ahab

The New York Review of Books "Siding with Ahab" article reveals an exhausting truth about 2020s American arts

I, in one of my futile attempts to be scholarly, picked up a copy of The New York Review of Books (The Review) the other day. The intent was to submerge myself in high brow literary critique instead of something dumb on a glowy screen. I cracked open the large format publication on the bus with a snobby, throat clearing harumph to float over life for a …