Example sentences for: menand

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  • 4) It includes forgotten middlebrow novels from the '30s and '40s at the expense of Pynchon, Morrison, Updike, "and almost every other contemporary novelist people actually read" (Louis Menand, The New Yorker ). 5) A deluge of similarly ridiculous lists is imminent.

  • Thus, writing in The New Yorker in December 1996, Louis Menand posited the breakdown of traditional monotheism into "genetic polytheism," in which personal behavior is attributable to an individualized genetic pantheon.

  • In the New York Review of Books , Louis Menand suggests the filmmakers "went out of their way to remake Althea Flynt" as a way to award Hustler a place it doesn't deserve in the sexual revolution.

  • I enjoyed "Pop Technology," Louis Menand's take on the Star Wars legacy, particularly his observation that human beings have become dwarfed by computer-created images on the big screen.

  • A minority praises Jeremy Irons' portrayal of Humbert Humbert--the middle-age professor obsessed with his adolescent stepdaughter--as sufficiently smarmy, and call the film "rich beyond what anyone could have expected" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). (Read Louis Menand's review in Slate .)


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