Damn all
Scott Malcomson, 23 September 1993
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America
by Robert Hughes.
Oxford, 224 pp., £12.95, June 1993,0 19 507676 1 Show More
by Robert Hughes.
Oxford, 224 pp., £12.95, June 1993,
“... and not the real deal. Culture of Complaint may prove to be the most influential such screed since Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism. Hughes is much funnier than Lasch, and probably happier – his strings of metaphor are evidence that the author enjoys his work. Nimble yet lunkish, his sense of humour ... ”