This morning's e-mail from the London Review of Books offers three teasers from the forthcoming issue:
I mean c'mon now. Is it possible to think of any topics more overdone and squeezed dry. [Why, yes it is--how about something nice about the Bloomsbury Group, or Henry James?--ed.]
- The Strange Career of Robert Oppenheimer
- Nancy Astor
- Larkin v. Amis
I mean c'mon now. Is it possible to think of any topics more overdone and squeezed dry. [Why, yes it is--how about something nice about the Bloomsbury Group, or Henry James?--ed.]
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I'm thinking Philip Larkin v. Martin Amis. "The family. They f*** you up. If he weren't Kingsley's son, not one would have taken him as anything other than a third-rate Thurber, a boffo Benchley, or a pitifully pale Parker...."
And the guy who has written two books on Bertrand Russell and one on Wittgenstein taking on Oppenheimer is a recipe for a fun review. Like A. O. Scott on The Hobbit.
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