The Stranger, June 29th, 2006
Newsflash: John Updike Is Not "With It" Terrorist by John Updike (Knopf) $24.95 Ahmad [hearts ] Islam 4-Eva WELL, I DIDN'T hate it. John Updike's newest novel. Terrorist, is getting panned by all the usual suspects, and it's easy to understand why. It's a novel about an 18-year-old high-school mixed-race Muslim extremist named Ahmad that is structured like a clichéd paperback thriller and packed with efforts to be relevant-famously, Christopher Hitchens, in the Atlantic, tore both this novel and its author a new asshole for unconvincingly trying to namecheck J.Lo. Yes, well, ha-ha. Score on...
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