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Flushing Ayn Rand February 14, 2024
The Book of Ayn, the latest novel from the Australian writer Lexi Freiman, follows Anna, a novelist who is relegated to the outskirts of literary society after a New York Times reviewer pans her book for being “classist.” Even as Freiman skewers the ...
Inversions, Conversions, Perversions December 07, 2023
In an early scene in Lexi Freiman’s new novel The Book of Ayn, the narrator, an Ayn Rand acolyte aptly named Anna, runs into two young women at a “dissident soiree” in Manhattan. She “recognized them from a downtown scene that was vaguely socialist a...
Lexi Freiman Wrote the Year’s Funniest Novel December 06, 2023
I met the writer Lexi Freiman last summer when we both happened to be attending the same writer’s residency in the hills above Costa Brava in Spain. The first thing I learned about her was that she was wickedly funny. The second was that she had a no...
Finding Bliss In Cancellation November 14, 2023
When Lexi Freiman sat down to write her second novel, she discovered an irresistible subject in Ayn Rand, the polarizing (albeit influential) Russian-American writer. “I'm always drawn to people who are sort of persona non grata, and she’s so despise...
Restored Ayn Rand Film Furthers Her Legacy October 23, 2023
Ayn Rand has converted more Americans to the causes of individual rights and limited government than all the nation’s conservative think tanks combined. Now the film version of her most accessible and underrated book, “We the Living,” is returning to...
