Tracy Flick has grown up. That ambitious student of the Carver Institute, who was running for president of the student council, now aspires to lead another Institute, that of Green Meadows.

We didn't read Tom Perrotta's second novel (Newark, 1961) because nobody bothered to translate it then. We remember Flick as the very young Reese Witherspoon, in the cult filmElection (1999) Andrés Trapiello: "The axiom that the best writers have been left-wing is false"