Mario Vargas Llosa’s illiberal conversion

Mario Vargas Llosa’s illiberal conversion

How Castro’s courtier one day wound up holding bouquets for Bolsonaro is one of the literary world’s more intriguing stories, though it is by no means sui generis. It is one of those commonplaces of life that ageing is often accompanied by a Rightward drift. Writers, especially, have proven susceptible to such migrations across the spectrum. Writing up the journey — some riff on “why I left the Left” — has been an occupational hazard. Think André