Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly on politics, religion, and Asian American issues.

Becca Rothfeld is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Previously, she was the nonfiction book critic at the Washington Post and ...

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Light twelve lanterns and give yourself a mop-top haircut if it seems like more of a cultural invasion.

P.S. One more Great American Novel, for good measure: “ A Thousand Acres ,” by Jane Smiley, is a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear set on a family farm in Iowa, in the nineteen-seventies.