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1) "Mr. Walt Whitman" Henry James's review of Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps (1865).

2) "By Cozzens Possessed" Dwight Macdonald's review of James Gould Cozzens's By Love...

William H. Gass's The Tunnel.

You're right, of course. My reading was a tad simplistic. In Updike's case, it's a question of leanings rather than espousal.



There are plenty of atheists who cherish their mothers and stay...

From the article by Gerald R. McDermott, link kindly provided by Pompey Bum:



The whole point of antinomianism is that this doesn't have to be a contradiction. My problem with nomianism is...

I have a great deal of respect for Bloom, but I do disagree with his list on a few points. I don't see Sinclair Lewis as a canonical novelist, not by a long stretch. The inclusion of Cynthia Ozick is...

Where the text is weak, illustrations will not make it stronger. Where the text is strong, illustrations will have an insinuating and vulgarising effect.

Despite enjoying scarcely more common ground than fish and fowl, prose and illustration manage to snap and peck at each other with fatal results. The argument can be a hilarious one (see Victorian...

Regarding Updike, I've always felt that the philandering of his male protagonists reflected the author's antinomianism. These men are redeemed by faith alone, not by following the Law of Moses.
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Big politically correct pussy cat is a spot-on description of David Foster Wallace. So, yeah, you're definitely on to something here.

There are two Pynchons. One is the genius who wrote V (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1965), Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and Mason & Dixon (1997). The Other is probably an amanuensis, perhaps a young...