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: Žižek’s Triple Somersault; Plastic Absolutism; and Co-op City Remembered By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Biography of a Nymphet; Dickinson’s Dalliance; and an Orwell-Waugh Amalgam By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Brilliant Mistakes; Sheep-Farming Sociopaths; and Egotistical Giants By Adam Begley
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Hitchens Dunked; Patricians Behaving Badly; and Ehrenreich to the Rescue By Adam Begley
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Barack the Scrivener; Opaque Pelosi; Hilary Mantel in History's Kitchen By Adam Begley
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Kerry as a Kid; Scratch ‘n’ Sniff; and High/Low Heaven By Adam Begley
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Hypocrisy Weighed; the Kamasutra Commodified; and Pestilence Personalized By Adam Begley
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Jim Webb Unvarnished; Move Over Mitt Romney, Here Comes Stephenie Meyer By Adam Begley
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Rummy Disses the Pentagon; Unreliable Narrators; and Psychedelic Living By Adam Begley
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Gore Vidal vs. Midge Decter; Sodomy Laws; and Dan's Hamptons By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Kingsley Amis Drinks; Bill Bryson Admonishes; and PEN Bestows Prizes By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Dylan Falls in Love, Goes Bananas; Delicious Pig Candy By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: McCain’s Scary Hagee; Plymouth Rock; Manhattan Watercolors By Adam Begley
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Oscar and Walt Scratch Each Other's Backs; Pep Pills; Lisbon Flattened! By Adam Begley
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Abraham Obama; The Call of the Wild; A Gem from Richard Bausch; No Bun = No Burger By Adam Begley
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: 'It' Girls; Manhattan Schoolgirls; and a Murdered Medici Princess By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Against the Semicolon; Vonnegut in Dresden; Women at War By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Osama’s Siblings; Osama’s Whereabouts; and the War on Osama By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: The Darker Side of Obama; The Largest Human Being of Our Time By Adam Begley
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: The Crimes of Abu Ghraib; Pin the Tail on the Donkey; John Updike Goes Down By Adam Begley
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Female Fibs; Liebling at War; Mailer and Auchincloss, Separated at Birth By Adam Begley