Behoved

How depressing that the New York Times Book Review survey plumped for something by worthy-but-dull Toni Morrison as best work of American fiction in the last 25 years.

Honestly, you'd think that these slave-to-correctitude choices could be better camouflaged after all these years of trotting this sort of rubbish out.

And Belovèd??

Beyond sneering.

Also-rans appear to have included

Phil Roth’s “American Pastoral"

DeLillo's “Underworld”

Cormac McCarthy's “Blood Meridian"

Updike's "Rabbit Angstrom"

so perhaps the whole affair was askew from the off.