SOURCE: "Logical Liberator," in New Statesman and Society, Vol. 8, No. 342, March 3, 1995, pp. 37-8.

In the following review of Reasonable Creatures, Milne argues that Pollitt's essays about American political events have resonance for a British audience.

Call me insular or even truculent. But I've had enough of photogenic young US feminists disinventing date rape and rediscovering the tyranny of body image. So it's a comfort to meet Katha Pollitt, who wasn't born yesterday, who's read her Mary Wollstonecraft and her Germaine Greer, who knows that class exists as well as gender.

These essays, written for the Nation, the New Yorker and the New York Times, are cheeringly argumentative and heart-eningly accessible. No jargon, no ghastly Germanic abstractions: just funny, questioning comment on topics that even a benighted British audience can recognise. Lorena Bobbitt makes an appearance, and there's a stout defence of Hillary Clinton. Pollitt takes a cause c...