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...media and the democrats continue to try to convince the American public that the Iraq war is a failure, it will become one. What critic of the war has come up with a plan that would have led to victory in Iraq, completely rebuilt Iraq's infrastructure and created the foundation for an Iraqi democracy with the death of fewer than 400 American soldiers in seven months? On the whole, the Bush Administration has done an excellent job. Just ask the Iraqi citizens. JAMES MURDOCK Denton, Texas...
...Professional Amateur TIME critic Gerald Clarke, who often covered the literary side of writer George Plimpton [Milestones, Oct. 6], wrote a profile of Plimpton that included a telling list of experiments by Plimpton as he bravely followed a variety of pursuits [Sept...
...Crimson Arts critic Eugenia B. Schraa can be reached at schraa@fas.harvard.edu...
...literary celebrity that comes through reviewing rather than writing fiction. Known for his thorough analysis and his unwavering stance in the face of greats (Pynchon, DeLillo and Updike have all felt the brunt of his pen), Wood, 37, has been called the last “true” critic. He himself agrees that broader, contextualized criticism—which not only evaluates literature but espouses a theory of art—is less prevalent in these times. The English department, then, has snatched up one of a dying breed...
Wood got his start as a critic immediately after college. During his time at Jesus College in Cambridge he won a prestigious prize sponsored by the Guardian for his undergraduate journalism. After he graduated he wrote to the Guardian’s literary editor and asked for a job. He got it, but his early assignments were short—five to eight-hundred word reviews. He later became deputy editor of the magazine’s book page, but even that didn’t yield the sort of expansive, in-depth criticism he longed...