Archive of Sarah Brouillette

Maid, the recent Netflix miniseries, follows Alex as she moves from underemployed gig worker to a creative writing degree. In doing so it embodies another form of the capitalist progress narrative where everone becomes an indebted investor in their own human capital.

Should we debate whether another writer deserved the “honour” of the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Kazuo Ishiguro? Consider the nature of this particular distinction.