This is the third time I’ve read this novel — once in college, once when I was about 30, and now at 40. To say that it’s comes scross different each time is a bit of an understatement. In college, I imagine I spent a lot of time focused on the rape scene and the “implications” of it — the “unmanning” of the character. I was probably a lot more on board with Louis’s performative masculinity (but read straight) and more or less in agreement […]