Can a Book With Bad Politics Be a Good Book? - New York Times

New York TimesCan a Book With Bad Politics Be a Good Book?New York TimesI'd argue more or less the contrary: It's everything in “Gulliver's Travels” that is in excess of (and often at odds with) Swift's nihilistic “point” — its inventiveness, its originality and wit, its sheer weirdness — that accounts for its lasting ...