"The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its……" — Philip Hensher
"The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will."
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids…
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
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