[W]riters today are less likely to engage in open antagonism because the political risks are too great. Between trolls on Twitter, libel law and the pressures of political correctness, writers no longer dare to insult their rivals in the hyperbolically abusive terms that Mailer and Vidal favoured.
For Prospect Magazine, Elaine Showalter reviews Richard Bradford’s latest book Literary Rivals, recalling some of the most juicy rivalries and altercations among writers through history.
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