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Be careful what you ask for
IS there an American novelist who has fallen farther from grace than John P. Marquand? For years he was one of the best-known names on the...
National Review, 11/23/09 by Terry Teachout · More from publication -
Truth without bullets
NOVELISTS don't always write about what they know, but when something interesting happens to them, it usually winds up in a book. World War II was...
National Review, 10/05/09 by Terry Teachout · More from publication -
What grandma read
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960, by Gordon Hutner (North Carolina,...
National Review, 07/06/09 by Terry Teachout · More from publication -
The other O'Connor
THE O'Connor everyone remembers is Flannery, who wrote herself into the history of American literature by looking at the poor white Protestants of...
National Review, 06/22/09 by Terry Teachout · More from publication -
In praise of drabness
IF you're 50 or older, you won't need to be told the source of these half-recalled phrases: "The story you are about to see is true." "This is the...
National Review, 08/04/08 by Terry Teachout · More from publication -
The old girl, still kickin': Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's massive ideological novel, turns 50
As I write these words, the 146th best-selling book on Amazon.com is the trade-paperback edition of a 1,200-page-long, 50-year-old mystery novel...
National Review, 11/19/07 by Terry Teachout · More from publication -
Influential Musicians
LOUIS ARMSTRONG (1901â1971) âSatchmoâ (as he loved to be called) didnât invent jazz, but it might have sounded unimaginably...
Atlantic, The, 12/01/06 by Terry Teachout Terry Teachout · More from publication -
Much ado about movies
American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents until Now, edited by Phillip Lopate (Library of America, 825 pp., $40) American Movie...
National Review, 07/03/06 by Terry Teachout · More from publication -
Witness
Elia Kazan: A Biography, by Richard Schickel (HarperCollins, 544 pp., $29.95) Elia Kazan: A Biography, by Richard Schickel (HarperCollins, 544...
National Review, 12/31/05 by Terry Teachout · More from publication -
Tom Wolfe: Telling New York
TOM WOLFE TOM WOLFE Telling New York SO, what are these ten great books of the past half-century, anyway? Reading from top to bottom, I find...
National Review, 12/19/05 by Terry Teachout · More from publication
