A review by jarrigy
Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry

3.0

Picaresque and even on occasion devastatingly timely in its satire sure. But not enough to really convince you that Henry doesn’t seem to enjoy the thrill of the games and machinations that transpire in his little imagining of sinister American imperialism at work in its backyard. At worst it plays out like a Mark Twain-written history of Pinochet’s coup, and the complete lack of empathy and general racism towards it’s Central American subjects certainly won’t do anything to help its case.