"Steinbeck's lyrical explanation of the way a brutal new capitalism was unfolding makes me think that we need but don't yet have enough such literature for the new capitalist frontier of our own time."
"Katherine Boo did this so powerfully in her Mumbai masterpiece, Behind the Beautiful Forevers. I still remember her description, through a low-income character's eyes, of walking into a hotel and seeing rich women carrying handbags as big as household shrines."
