For a similarly cutting advice on how to write about america, here's Garrison Keillor's classic book review, "On the Road Avec M. Lévy" https://www.nytimes.com/

For a similarly cutting advice on how to write about america, here's Garrison Keillor's classic book review, "On the Road Avec M. Lévy" https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/books/review/on-the-road-avec-m-levy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/books/review/on-the-road-... On one hand it's a review of Bernard-Henri Lévy's French travelogue "American Vertigo." On the other hand it's a take down of all the cliches of all these American travelogues that visit the same places and say the same things. Here's a telling bit from the beginning. > You meet Sharon Stone and John Kerry and a woman who once weighed 488 pounds and an obese couple carrying rifles, but there's nobody here whom you recognize. In more than 300 pages, nobody tells a joke. Nobody does much work. Nobody sits and eats and enjoys their food. You've lived all your life in America, never attended a megachurch or a brothel, don't own guns, are non-Amish, and it dawns on you that this is a book about the French. There's no reason for it to exist in English, except as evidence that travel need not be broadening and one should be wary of books with Tocqueville in the title.