The title looked interesting (though it's possibly clickbait) so I opened it in a new tab. When I switched to the tab the article was covered by a 'subscribe to our newsletter' popup so I closed it.

Guess I'll never know what they're talking about.

Link without pop-ups http://archive.is/V0xLB

It's a review of a book that is crammed with adulteries, alcoholism, betrayals, broken friendships, deportations, deprivation, drug addiction, executions, humiliation, illicit abortions, imprisonment, murder, Nazi atrocities, starvation, torture chambers, treason and worse.

.. are we reading the same review? The one I'm reading talks about the literary scene and the importance of Beauvoir quite a lot.

The comment you replied to was literally a copy and paste of almost all of the first paragraph.

Wow what absolute cancer. He didn't tell the whole story either. You literally cant close the popup to see the content without inputting email or leaving the site. Purely hostile UI.

You can click anywhere outside the popup to close it. Among cancers, it's rather benign.

I don't care if i can close it. They didn't even give me a chance to read the fucking article.

In such dire situations, I usually press 'ESC' to close pop-ups. Then leave, if it doesn't help.

Fascinating! Maybe you should write a book about those atrocities?