“Tongue-in-Cheek Tocqueville”

February 26, 2015 | 1 book mentioned

“‘So your idea is to drive across America and write about it without talking to a single American?’ ‘Yes.'” Karl Ove Knausgaard travels North America as “a tongue-in-cheek Tocqueville” for the New York Times Magazine.  Pair with his piece for The Millions, “The View from My Window is a Constant Reminder,” and with Jonathan Callahan‘s reading of Knausgaard’s My Struggle.

is a staff writer for The Millions. She lives in New York and every so often writes things at kaulielewis.wordpress.com.