Reflections on Jonathan Lethem’s Essay “Defending The Searchers”

I recently read Jonathan Lethem’s essay from his book “The Disappointment Artist.” It’s the opening essay in this collection of self-reflective essays (nice way of saying navel-gazing, kind of like this blog).

My view of this essay is that it is part of the standard “liberal” or “enlightened” commentary about the horrors that have been visited upon the Indigenous peoples of this hemisphere and especially this continent. In other words — yes, we did the Indians wrong, but so what?

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