Barbara Kingsolver Takes Aim at the Trump Era, and Critics Shoot Back

In a long, mildly unhinged 1999 essay on Barbara Kingsolver’s career-cementing novel, The Poisonwood Bible, critic Lee Siegel canonized the author as “the most successful practitioner of a style in contemporary fiction that might be called Nice Writing.” It wasn’t a compliment. He found her work so reverential of liberal
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