Tomatoes + Why Doesn't the Far Left Read Literature?Nathalie Quintane Lauded French poet Nathalie Quintane's Tomatoes, written at the height of the infamous Tarnac affair, is a book of integrated critique, a form a literary non fiction that prefers anecdote to theory. In Tomatoes, it turns out that the banalities of municipal politics, book festivals and vegetable gardening are saturated with all the latest advances in state repression. Quintane's irony makes demands, puts something at stake, attempts