David Weir: The Global Glitch Where a Paralympic Titan Meets a Midlife Novelist
DAVID WEIR: THE NAME THAT SPRINTS ACROSS BORDERS, ORDERS, AND DISORDERS From Rio to Reykjavik, the phrase “David Weir” now triggers two quite different reflexes. One half of humanity pictures a Scottish locomotive in carbon-fiber gloves, tearing up Paralympic tracks like a tax-dodging oligarch tears up treaties. The other half—mostly American—imagines an English novelist who…