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Historical thrillers are the meatiest of all mysteries. They are connected to reality like funny bone to shoulder bone, insidiously subverting the official versions of history. Gore Vidal's Burr, for instance, and-more inventively-Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution plausibly :combine wit, suspense, speculation and scholarship. Novels like these not only induce insomnia but are also hallucinogenic, tingeing with fantasy the reader's remembrance of known fact...
...considerably higher. This is especially true for the thousands of Europeans and Americans who have flocked to the Indian subcontinent in search of enlightenment, cheap dope and, like the Californian who turned her sadhana into a course on "inner environments," opportunity. As reckoned by the Hindus and Gore Vidal, this dark, chaotic age of Kali seethes with confusions, corruption and misapprehension. Karma, for example, a rather severe concept of determinism, has been turned into a metaphysical jelly bean by hippies, shopping-center swamis and jet-lagged gurus. "Karma," writes Mehta, "is now felt as a sort of vibration and Krishna...
Handlin calls Gore Vidal's Burr and 1876 "inventions that disguised the poisonous portrayal of the early Republic in a fantastic tale of corruption, greed and sex." In a chapter entitled "The Diet of a Ravenous Public," Handlin rips the 'factional' historians to shreds. He assails Ragtime, calling "racial prejudice the crutch on which the book limps along," and renders equal treatment to critics that lapped...
...superb quarterly; his publications include novels (The Sheltering Sky. Let It Come Down), collections of poetry and short stories, travel essays, oral histories translated from the North African Moghrebi dialect and an autobiography. His work has been highly esteemed by other writers, including a few (Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal) with no love for each other. Yet Bowles remains less familiar to general readers than dozens of his inferiors...
...Avis Vidal, assistant professor in the department of city and regional planning, said yesterday that dissatisfaction with Kilbridge "can't be too widespread because I haven't run across that type of criticism" among junior faculty...