Our Critic’s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Jonathan Littell Ties Critics in Knots with The Kindly Ones
Not found time yet to digest Jonathan Littell’s 992-page Holocaust novel, The Kindly Ones (Harper, $29.99), which won two major literary prizes when it was published as Les Bienveillantes in France in 2006? Confused by the fact that it was written in French by an American (a Yale graduate, no less) and then translated into Read More
