An Acerbic Young Writer Takes Aim at the Identity Era - The New York Times

Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties. Tony Tulathimutte photographed in Brooklyn.Credit...Jarod Lew for The New York Times Supported by By Giles Harvey Giles Harvey is a contributing writer for the magazine who often profiles novelists and directors. There was something distinctly unrelaxed about the way that Tony Tulathimutte, one of the more talented young writers at work in America today, announced the publication of “The Feminist,” a new short story, back in the fall of 2019. “To be clear in advance,” Tulathimutte wrote on Twitter, “feminism is good, this character is not good.” A very online author of very online fiction, Tulathimutte sounded for a moment like an 18th-century English novelist assuring the gentle reader, lest anyone mistake the purpose of his tale, that he had chosen to portray a scoundrel only so that scoundrels might be more thoroughly reviled. These days, when the faintest gust of heterodoxy

Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties. Tony Tulathimutte photographed in Brooklyn.Credit...Jarod Lew for The New York Times Supported by By Giles Harvey Giles Harvey is a contributing writer for the magazine who often profiles novelists and directors. There was something distinctly unrelaxed about the way that Tony Tulathimutte, one of the more talented young writers at work in America today, announced the publication of “The Feminist,” a new short story, back in the fall of 2019. “To be clear in advance,” Tulathimutte wrot