Hail, Victor!(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)

THERE MUST BE MANY times when a writer spends paragraph after paragraph on a topic, carefully detailing parts and pieces yet unaware that he or she is talking only about him- or herself. Watching it is a marvelous process, especially when it is invisible to the speaker/writer. It was apparent through 15 paragraphs of David Greenberg's review of Victor Navasky's A Matter of Opinion ["Up With Rags," July].

As a subscriber to The Nation since 1937, I have seen and followed the joys and hazards of a magazine that takes seriously the various meanings of the word ...

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