Our Critic’s Tip Sheet On Current Reading A bonus from Blake Bailey’s Cheever (Knopf, $35): When William Faulkner won the Nobel prize in 1949, Cheever amused himself By Adam Begley
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 By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Gone with the Wind Decoded; Flannery O’Connor’s Feathered Friends; and Amazonian Adventure Exuberant is the best word for Molly Haskell’s Frankly, My Dear (Yale, $24), a slim, unfailingly intelligent, fact-filled book that By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Divine Sculptures; Heavenly Hogwash; and the Immortal Ian McEwan By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: David Ogilvy Admired; Memoirs Miniaturized; and Sexual Perversity Embraced By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Rabbit Remembered—McEwan, Amis and Others Wave Goodbye By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Obama’s Inaugural Stealth; Guantánamo by Foot; the Sad Truth About Benjamin Button By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: The Triumphant Return of Jayne Anne Phillips By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Lincoln 24/7; Bush and The Great Gatsby; Smith’s Self-Absorption By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Short and Sharp from Melville House; Wallace Stevens’ Deep Freeze; and Obama’s Muse By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Jackie and La Joconde; Gore Vidal On Air; and a Long Lost Campus Novel By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Waiting for Santa; Sontag on Writers; and Milton’s Misery By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Proust Junkies’ Delight; Luscious Love from the Louvre; and Brooklyn Bridge Adored By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: America the Multiple; Pet Peeves from Across the Pond; Martian Pick-Up Lines By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Roy Blount’s Way With Words; Gottlieb’s Gargantuan Dance Anthology By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Jonathan Franzen Remembers David Foster Wallace; Mencken Disses Joe Sixpack By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Three New Memoirs, Three Branches on the Tree of Grief By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Veep Sweep; and the Reading Habits of Bulls and Bears By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Spiegelman’s Self-Portrait; Wisdom Begins at Sixty-Five By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Michael Herr’s Heroic Honesty; Hemingway’s Unhappy Soldier By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Booker Judges Blow the Whistle; Richard Hell Crowns Lou Reed By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Gilead Revisited; Nabokov Does YouTube; and the Honey Bee Blues By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Another Auster Pretzel; Malcolm’s Burdock Moment; and a Wallace Stevens Masterpiece By Adam Begley