For Matthiessen and Lucius, Mister Watson Hard to Follow

Lost Man’s River , by Peter Matthiessen. Random House, 539 pages, $26.95.

Peter Matthiessen is something of a hero to Green-tinted lefties who like to think that passionate convictions about threatened wildlife and dispossessed peoples can thrive in the same brain alongside refined artistic instincts and critical intelligence. Imagine a mind-meld of T.S. Eliot and Read More