Like his other work, Adjustment Day is by turns brilliantly imaginative and self-indulgently quirky and “transgressive.” The novel features a multitude of characters and subplots. The prose, far from being “dull,” sparkles with wit and vividness. The truth is that Adjustment Day is Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since Fight Club. “Acres of boredom and dull prose,” says The Guardian. And so they’d rather not spark a debate about Adjustment Day they’d rather it simply sank without a trace. They are dimly aware that the tide is turning – that they are sitting on a powder keg. It is as if journalists don’t want to alert readers to the political content of the novel, aware that many of them will make a beeline for anything that gets denounced as un-PC. Thus, the reviews of Adjustment Day – so far – have been curiously free of politically correct shaming and finger-wagging.

This is because our ideas are so reasonable and so attractive. Regardless of his perspective, the Left today recognizes that even discussing the ideas of the New Right at all is dangerous. This is pretty damned significant for a bestselling author – but, again, it doesn’t mean that Palahniuk has embraced the Right. Adjustment Day features a character named “Gavyn Baker McInnes,” and there are references to Lester Maddox, Lothrop Stoddard, Paula Deen, and Richard Spencer. All of these admissions are made, of course, with the usual caveats: “shocking,” “horrifying,” “transgressive,” and so on. (And since Palahniuk is obviously a smart guy, he must read this Website as well.) He admits elsewhere to reading Jim Goad and Jack Donovan. In an interview with Joe Rogan, Palahniuk sheepishly admits that he regularly reads The Daily Stormer. And one does not just have to infer this from the text. Research for Adjustment Day seems to have involved Palahniuk logging countless hours reading hate online. As we will see, however, Palahniuk’s own perspective on all this is hard to pin down. Here you will find withering parodies of feminism, “diversity,” and political correctness, savage criticisms of liberal journalism, nods to Asatru and Jack Donovan and “men going their own way,” uproarious sendups of Afrocentrism and fussy gay totalitarianism, and even an argument for the white ethnostate. The characters and plot of Chuck Palahniuk’s new novel Adjustment Day are thoroughly grounded in the politics of the New Right.

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