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The Trouble With Sombreros At Tequila Parties: Francine Prose On Lionel Shriver’s Cultural Appropriation Speech

ISSUES Posted: September 23, 2016 8:00 am

“The topic is a complicated and sensitive one, and Shriver’s first mistake, I think, was to ignore that complexity and sensitivity by adopting a tone that ranged from jauntiness to mockery and contempt. … To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a hat is more than just a hat.”

ISSUES Published: 09.19.16

Read the story in New York Review of Books Published: 09.19.16

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