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Alex Denney surveys the horror genre over the past decade and wonders which is better: an intellectualised, ‘elevated horror’ like Get Out, or a classic slasher movie like the new Scream?
Philip Roth: âNo one can accuse him of ever hiding who he was.â Photograph: Reuters/Alamy Philip Roth: âNo one can accuse him of ever hiding who he was.â Photograph: Reuters/Alamy Sat 3 Apr 2021 04.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 5 Apr 2021 06.55 EDT In order to grow up, as Sigmund Freud probably wrote somewhere, a child must rebel against its parents, and for a while now modern culture has been rebelling against its literary fathers, that Mount Rushmore of 20th-century highbrow masculinity: Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, John Updike and Philip Roth. Last month, twoBritish newspa...