subversiveness

A warning to Ahmanson traditionalists: “A Strange Loop” may shock you with its whirling subversiveness.

It offers a winking subversiveness and plenty of laughs, especially in the catchy pop-rock tunes with their sharp, smutty rhymes.

With great subversiveness, Portis consistently abjured America’s postwar fetishes for progress, social mobility and affluence.

In his public appearances, Williams often walks a fine line between parody and subversiveness, stunt and style.

The Seattle Times spoke with Spiegelman over Zoom about revisiting this memoir, censorship and subversiveness, and the multiple meanings of the word “breakdowns.”