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
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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
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
