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"[W]e have a book worthy of its subject--graceful, astonishingly well researched, yet imbued with a sense of flow that is rarely achieved at this level of scholarship," says Daphne Merkin in the New York Times Book Review . (See Sarah Kerr's review in Slate.)
But its take on religion is simple-minded: "In this novel one is either a messianist or a nonbeliever" (Jonathan Rosen, the New York Times Book Review ). A few reviewers say he succeeds entirely: "Leave it to a goy to write the definitive novel about Israel" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ).
since Tootsie " (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Critics also like David Mamet's screenplay for its jabs at the news media, out-of-touch liberals, and "everything that's awful in American life nowadays" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Dissenting, The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin bemoans the film's "sophomoric" humor and its "cozy, video-ready cynicism."
In the New York Review of Books , Louis Menand deems the film an inferior version of The English Patient . The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin declares James unfilmable.
In the New York Times Book Review , Daphne Merkin calls Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls "a throwback to a time before fiction turned graphic and interior and hot to the touch."