Novelist and Cultural Commentator

Lionel Shriver

1 article 2001

Lionel Shriver is an American novelist and journalist best known for her novel 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' (2003). A longtime expatriate based in the United Kingdom, she is known for her sharp cultural commentary and contrarian perspectives. She contributed a piece to The Weekly Standard in 2001 examining anti-Americanism in the wake of crisis.

Anti-Americanism in Crisis

December 3, 2001 · Lionel Shriver, Magazine

LONDON IN LONDON'S GUARDIAN last month, Seumas Milne decried the war in Afghanistan as a "cruel absurdity"--an assault on "one of the poorest and most ruined countries in the world by the planet's richest and most powerful state." Now that the war against the Taliban looks like a rout, the numerous…