B.R. Myers recently wrote a very interesting book on the political ideology of North Korea, called The Cleanest Race.
This review is well worth reading for a number of rather surprising reasons, especially considering that it was published in the Atlantic.
A suburban comedy-drama about the relationship between cookie-baking Patty, who describes herself as "relatively dumber" than her siblings; red-faced husband Walter, "whose most salient quality … was his niceness"; and Walter’s womanizing college friend, Richard, who plays in an indie band called Walnut Surprise, the novel is a 576-page monument to insignificance.It shouldn't come as a surprise, after all, it is a novel. Probably be made into a movie and win a prize or two in literature.