Karl Taro Greenfeld’s The Subprimes taps deep into the roots of modern precarity. It’s light comedy about weighty subjects: wealth inequality, environmental devastation, the erosion of democratic representation, the creation of a hereditary moneyed class, and the disastrous false consciousness of the American populace. But, you know, funny.
Greenfeld’s “The Subprimes” and the Way Fiction Predicts the Present
A view into American class anxiety.
May 15, 2015