![]() The Material Girl’s arrival at Jewish mysticism by way of renewable virginity her nouveau riche purchase of the trappings of British aristocracy her Mother-of-God airlifting of telegenic tots from Malawi and striding through security with them hung from her steroid shoulders like Vuitton bags-more power to the writer who can wring fresh humor from a being who has made herself into one joke after another. But “Sexing the Pheasant,” in which the pop icon is costumed for the hunt, is the right story with which to make the reader’s acquaintance for a more important reason: It’s giddy good fun. No writer but Millet, whose novels include How the Dead Dream (2008) and Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2005), could have written these ten funny, weird, and ultimately sad and shaming stories.Ī collection that lampoons celebrity culture might naturally begin with Madonna, one of the few to have ascended to the Olympian height of one-name fame. ![]() As in George Saunders’s CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, the stories that compose Love in Infant Monkeys are unified by their satiric dead aim, their perturbing vision of what it means to be American, and their originality. ![]() ![]() ![]() A shrewd, and necessary, decision the novelist Lydia Millet has made in assembling her first collection of short stories is the order of its content. ![]()
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