
By Philippa Tracy
Jean Hanff Korelitz’s eighth novel The Latecomer is a social satire on privilege and family dynamics. It focuses on the Oppenheimers, a wealthy New York Jewish family, who struggle to relate to each other, even to like each other. Salo Oppenheimer is passionate about art, but lacks “a sense of fully inhabiting his own life.” He studies economics and joins the family banking business as he is