This is a great review, a rare thing. And ‘a memoir written ” and this must be unique ” in the style of 1980’s sex-and-shopping queen Judith Krantz, and also Franz Kafka’ — that, I’ve got to read. In the Penal Colony….
Karl Juhnke
3 years ago
Never sure if my pity of the elites is worth anything. The same can be said for all those who suck up to authority, power and/or money.
However, their (imagined or real on my part) inability to love or even contemplate loves meaning seems reason enough, though I understand they couldn’t care less about what I feel or think.
After one is fed, clothed and housed the next most important things are love of family and friends. I understand the elites have an abundance of the former three and a massive dearth of the latter two. Irony of the highest order.
Benedict Waterson
3 years ago
not sure if Tanya Gold is really in a position to go around calling people ‘stupid’, but she seems to do it in every article
Tanya Gold calls Sasha Swire a ‘superb diarist’ and implicitly admires Amiel’s talents. She just suspects that Sasha is brighter than her husband. It’s a book review and reviewers have to read between the lines to some extent or there would be no point in the task. Beyond this, Tanya Gold seems perfectly intelligent and your remark has more than a tinge of gratuitous misogyny.
She does it in every article. They’re very arch & snide. I’m not sure her online articles are major contributions to the history of ideas, or display signs of a major intelligence themselves. & If you think that any hint of criticism of anyone who happens to be a woman is tantamount to a criticism of all women, then you must be fairly simple-minded. You must also take a fairly dim view of women, deep down, if you believe that every single one of them needs to be vigorously protected from all criticism.
I’m a fan of Tanya Gold’s but most definitely not of all female journalists. I don’t much like Marina Hyde or Hadley Freeman, for example, as both seem to follow the paths of least resistance and they don’t surprise. I didn’t like TG’s piece about ‘Cuties’ and I think she’s far too generous in her view of Meghan and Harry but I like that I don’t know what to expect when reading her. Also, I find her empathetic with her subjects rather than sycophantic, as so often with other journalists. She’s not at all snide; she’s very direct about what she does and doesn’t like. I don’t know where you are finding that.
This is a great review, a rare thing. And ‘a memoir written ” and this must be unique ” in the style of 1980’s sex-and-shopping queen Judith Krantz, and also Franz Kafka’ — that, I’ve got to read. In the Penal Colony….
Never sure if my pity of the elites is worth anything. The same can be said for all those who suck up to authority, power and/or money.
However, their (imagined or real on my part) inability to love or even contemplate loves meaning seems reason enough, though I understand they couldn’t care less about what I feel or think.
After one is fed, clothed and housed the next most important things are love of family and friends. I understand the elites have an abundance of the former three and a massive dearth of the latter two. Irony of the highest order.
not sure if Tanya Gold is really in a position to go around calling people ‘stupid’, but she seems to do it in every article
Tanya Gold calls Sasha Swire a ‘superb diarist’ and implicitly admires Amiel’s talents. She just suspects that Sasha is brighter than her husband. It’s a book review and reviewers have to read between the lines to some extent or there would be no point in the task. Beyond this, Tanya Gold seems perfectly intelligent and your remark has more than a tinge of gratuitous misogyny.
She does it in every article. They’re very arch & snide. I’m not sure her online articles are major contributions to the history of ideas, or display signs of a major intelligence themselves. & If you think that any hint of criticism of anyone who happens to be a woman is tantamount to a criticism of all women, then you must be fairly simple-minded. You must also take a fairly dim view of women, deep down, if you believe that every single one of them needs to be vigorously protected from all criticism.
I’m a fan of Tanya Gold’s but most definitely not of all female journalists. I don’t much like Marina Hyde or Hadley Freeman, for example, as both seem to follow the paths of least resistance and they don’t surprise. I didn’t like TG’s piece about ‘Cuties’ and I think she’s far too generous in her view of Meghan and Harry but I like that I don’t know what to expect when reading her. Also, I find her empathetic with her subjects rather than sycophantic, as so often with other journalists. She’s not at all snide; she’s very direct about what she does and doesn’t like. I don’t know where you are finding that.