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References to Jonathan Franzen’s “eagerly anticipated third novel” have been appearing in print for months; advance reader??s copies of The Corrections came with a letter from its highly respected editor and publisher, Jonathan Galassi, who called it “one of the very best [books] we’ve published in my fifteen years at FSG [Farrar, Straus & Giroux],” praise not to be taken lightly; the New York Times ran feature articles in both its magazine and book review; and the excitement led Time magazine...
...response to Susan Brunka’s passionate disapproval of The Crimson's reprint of a 1962 article besmirching Radcliffe women (Letters, “A Reader??s Reply,” May 23; Opinion, “A Grader’s Reply,” May 16), I would hope Brunka and other readers of like mind would consider these documents historical...
...narratives often lack the complexity and nuance that exist in the world we know. For Asnes, the current conflict can be summed up in two straightforward identities: Israelis = biblical Egyptians = bad, while Palestinians = biblical Israelites = good. This sort of rhetoric is offensive both to reality and to the reader??s intelligence...
...easier for us by making an argument that pretty much just says, “Some works are divinely inspired and some aren’t.” Calasso also seems to think that spark elevating those divinely inspired works can be discovered only by a reader??s personal reaction to it (such as having his hairs stand on end), begging the question of why the hell we would need Calasso to point them out. But this is not to suggest that this is a thesis-driven sort of book. No, no and no. The sections veer...