And now her career, finances and identity are all in jeopardy.īooks What would a university of the canceled look like? Read this novel (One might divine the author’s inspiration from the Grey Lady’s review of her debut, “ Inappropriation.”) In short, Anna has been canceled.
Rand isn’t a character but the object of undue idolatry for Anna, a 39-year-old writer whose own “satire of the opioid epidemic” has just been called “classist” by the New York Times. It shakes you by the shoulders until you laugh, vomit or both. The good news is Freiman has written one of the funniest and unruliest novels in ages. Putting Rand in the title of one’s satirical novel feels like a dare, or at least - in a hyper-polarized time - a provocation. To answer your question: Yes, Lexi Freiman’s “ The Book of Ayn” is about Ayn Rand, the bug-eyed author of “ Atlas Shrugged” and “ The Fountainhead.” The founder of Objectivism, which extols rationalism and selfishness above all else, and whose disciples include Peter Thiel, former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan and many young men averse to moral complexity. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
