In the controversial writer’s new novel, ‘Mania,’ America is overtaken by an idiocracy.
Maybe so. As anyone versed in literary scandal will remember, at the 2016 Brisbane Writers Festival, Lionel Shriver gave the, in which she pushed back against identity politics in fiction and the attendant theory of “cultural appropriation”: “The ultimate endpoint of keeping our mitts off experience that doesn’t belong to us,To accessorize for the occasion, Shriver, a White woman, donned a sombrero.
A contrarian, Shriver has also steadily pushed back against “woke” culture in interviews and essays. Though she voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and supports reproductive rights, in 2022 she— both legal and undocumented — into the United States and Britain. Shriver — who has lived in the U.K. on and off for three decades before recently setting up shop in Portugal — has advocated the preservation of what she’s called a “” in Britain.
“Don’t ask where anyone went to school. Don’t tell anyone where you went to school, even if you went to Yale — well, especially if you went to Yale! … Don’t ever mention, or fish for, IQ, obviously, but also SAT and ACT scores or grade point averages. You’re even meant to keep your trap shut about how well you did on newspaper quizzes on the major stories of the week.
As with any good satire, “Mania” tethers itself to — and exaggerates — real-world trends, such as “completion grading” , the death of the expert and theories of different learning styles in the classroom. It also must be acknowledged that none of the characters here are intellectually challenged, thus allowing Shriver to avoid darker and even more sensitive implications of her mockery.
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