The New Yorker · 8 Oct 2026
“Degenerates” Is Funny, Pervy, and Startling
This sequence is the first in a set of shrewd structural gambits, a forced baptism in empathy for an incel—the sort of man who is generally portrayed in art as a loser at best, a monster at worst. But if that heartrending hotline exchange suggests that Went’s play—which is skillfully directed by her
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