Against Irony, Really (Truly): Spongy Screed Wrings False
For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today , by Jedediah Purdy. Alfred A. Knopf, 256 pages, $20.
I’m trying to write earnestly about the importance of being ironic. Do you think that’s possible? If you do, you’re my kind of ironist. If you don’t, if you think that earnestness and irony can’t Read More