Word: sardonicism
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Only in her longest story, The Displaced Person, does Ferocious Flannery weaken her wallop by groping about for a symbolic second-story meaning - in this case, something about salvation. But despite such arty fumbling, which also marred Author O'Connor's novel Wise Blood (TIME, June 9, 1952...
It's a short street, and it takes hours to get from one end to the other. I stop at the pub and get back for lunch. In the after noon there's nothing to do, so I work." About Danny Boy. The Thomas legend will be enhanced...
A onetime literary, sometimes sanguinary critic for London's News Chronicle, British Wit Stephen (Gamesmanship} Potter disclosed, in the New York Times, the Borgian tactics of his former trade in a piece called "The Art of Reviewmanship." Essence of the art: "How to be one up on the...
As a novel, The Confidence-Man is a near miss, one of those pregnant and provocative failures that prove more rewarding to read than a whole litter of lesser writers' tidy but empty triumphs. Austere and philosophical, it sometimes seems all head and no tale. Despite its dire point...
A Search for Fraud. In writing Lawrence's life, Aldington (author of a sardonic bestselling 1929 novel of World War I, Death of a Hero) claims to have started with an open mind. But in the course of his four years of research, he turned up many claims by...