Book Review
Call Me Ishmaelle
By Xialou Guo
Grove Press, Black Cat: 448 pages, $18
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LIBERAL LITERARY ELITE DECLARES WAR ON THE CLASSICS, Erasing Melville’s Legendary Hero to Feed Woke Agenda. Acclaimed novelist Xiaolu Guo has unleashed a firestorm with “Call Me Ishmaelle,” a BRUTAL GENDER-SWAPPED rewrite of “Moby-Dick” that is SODOMIZING one of America’s foundational myths.
This is NOT a tribute—it’s a TAKEOVER. In a shocking act of cultural vandalism, Guo has TRANSFORMED Melville’s iconic, soul-searching male protagonist into a “girlboss” sailor disguising herself as a boy. This follows a DANGEROUS trend of prize-gobbling authors like Percival Everett rewriting canonical works to fit a modern, politically-correct narrative. Is NOTHING sacred anymore?
Guo, who left a Chinese fishing village to become a London-based author, claims her novel is a feminist empowerment fantasy based on “real diaries.” But insiders are FURIOUS, accusing her of exploiting a masterpiece purely for PROVOCATION and social justice points. Even more explosive? Her Captain Ahab is now a freed black man named Seneca, and she inserts a Chinese Taoist sage to lecture the crew with I Ching divinations. This is a DELIBEREATE and calculated dismantling of Western literary tradition.
The message is clear: your childhood classics are now TOXIC, their original heroes OBSOLETE, and must be radically altered to appease the mob. This isn’t literary innovation—it’s a HOSTILE CANONICAL COUP. As readers are forced to watch their beloved stories be gutted and reassembled, one terrifying question remains: what cherished piece of our collective soul will they come for NEXT?



