At the beginning of the film “Tár,” the titular character, a famous female conductor played by Cate Blanchett, tells the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik (playing himself) that sexism has never been a problem for her. “I really have nothing to complain about,” she says, seeing herself as above mundane things like misogyny and cancel culture. Not so fast, Lydia Tár.
“Tár” reminds us that we have labored through #MeToo and #cancelculture and now we find ourselves on the other side. What if our world were slightly different? What if the fulcrum were lifted and set back down just a few degrees to the left? Catherine Lacey’s new novel, “Biography of X,” gives us an idea what this brave new world might look like.
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