How Faulkner’s four narrators delineate Biden-era constituencies.
fiction
Posted inMarch 1988
Two Cheers for Tom Wolf
He vanquishes the vanities of the rich, but lacks the courage to say what he admires.
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Missed Moorings: American Novelists Lose Touch
Not long ago the winners of the American Book Awards for 1985 were announced: Don DeLillo’s White Noise in fiction and Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground in nonfiction. Thankfully for the purveyors of the awards, which have been controversial lately, it was a quiet year. Nobody much complained. Both books were by well-known, veteran authors, both were well received, neither wore […]
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Today’s Best Journalism: Better Than Fiction
The sensation that Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent caused when it was published in 1959 can be taken as a sign of how hungry the nation was at that moment for some sense of the texture of modern Washington. Today it seems incredible that Advise and Consent could have made the earth move—it’s terribly dated, a routine procession of […]
