I don’t think anyone relies on the Weekly Standard for anything other than a cheap laugh at the tenuous machinations of the extreme right. Nonetheless, their article on Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel literature prizewinner, breaks new ground.

The author bases his critique of her work exclusively on a review of a film adaptation of one of her novels and on a PR quote from her publisher.

Then again, we don’t really need even to consider literary merit. Ms Jelinek wrote a play opposed to the Iraq lunacy, and is a former member of the Communist party – and as we all know, no great writer could ever be opposed to a crazy war, or be a Communist…

(via Crooked Timber)