Red Pill: A Novel

"You want to read Hari Kunzru’s Red Pill to understand the madness of the past few years. It’s about a writer who’s trying and failing to write. He starts spiraling and, among other things, can’t resist watching a TV show about police. Eventually he meets the show’s creator, Anton: a demagoguing-bigot type robbing the world of its sanity-giving oxygen. Hopelessly compelled, the writer peers deep into Anton’s hard-right vision, where raw power declares what reality is, where dominance is truth. It feels dream-like, all-consuming. Then Election Day 2016 arrives – and his paranoia becomes reality."