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...latest, Rabbit is Rich, stays within the society of inflation that Theroux can only deal with by escaping. It's a book about how real people live. For an intelligent, incisive opinion on the shape of people's minds in other lands, a friend of Theroux's--V.S. Naipaul--is far preferable. Theroux's vision of America as his wanderings across the World will probably find its way onto more night tables and commander trains than either, though. But if the open road is really where the soul of America lies--and Theroux apparently thinks it does--it would...
NONFICTION: Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul ∙ The Confidence Man in American Literature, Gary Lindberg ∙ The Graves of Academe, Richard Mitchell ∙ The Language of Clothes, Alison Lurie ∙ Lectures on Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling
...Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul Elvis, Albert Goldman ∙ Lectures on Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ The Physicists, C.P. Snow Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm
...Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul Elvis, Albert Goldman ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ The Physicists, C.P. Snow ∙ Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm
...Naipaul's journey was grueling and intellectually brave; he has returned, not with a history but with a partisan report of battles present and to come...