That night, I found myself seriously questioning this assumption I’d held since childhood: “You have to try to forget that while you’re reading.” You do? Why? And, more to the point, how?
How do you approach literature when you find it racist or elitist? Starting from her teaching experience, Elif Batuman tries to answer that question over at the New Yorker.
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