If Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man is any indication, there is no reason to expect that writers will give up on trying to top Kafka anytime soon. Hamid’s new novel begins with a sentence that at once indicates that the 51-year-old British Pakistani novelist is the latest writer to try to take after Kafka while also upping the ante of the metamorphosis tale for the trigger-warning era: “One morning Anders, a white man, woke up to find he had turned a deep and undeniable brown.”
