Having written about the novelist Lionel Shriver yesterday morning, I discover that Spiked has posted the video of Fraser Myers’s interview with her about her wicked novel on our immigration nightmare, the just-published A Better Life — and I find that she and I are on the same wavelength. She even makes a point about the metamorphosis of the “homeless” to the “unhoused” that I made here last week.
This is the Spiked introduction of the interview:
We need to talk about immigration, says novelist Lionel Shriver. Mass migration is fundamentally changing our societies and fuelling a monumental political backlash, yet is still near impossible to discuss openly and frankly. Here, she sits down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to talk about her new novel, A Better Life, which explores America’s migrant crisis through the lives of a New York family who come to regret opening their home to an unvetted stranger. Lionel and Fraser also discuss the left’s warping of language to excuse illegal migration, the decadence and decline of Western society, and how she managed to get her book published in our censorious climate.
I thought some readers might find the interview of interest, as I did. Shriver mentions the hostile New York Times review of A Better Life in passing. The review is stupidly obnoxious to such an extent that it may make you want to buy and read the novel, as it does me. In any event, without further ado, meet Lionel Shriver.
