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Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times that although Gates "delineates his characters' predicaments with a pitch-perfect ear," the collection suffers when "a certain authorial smugness creeps into the narration," which leaves the reader "feeling superior to his characters, irritated with their solipsistic mind games and self-inflicted wounds."
"[S]he tries in vain to pass off tired observations as radical aperçus, subjective musings as general truths, sappy suggestions as useful ideas," writes the New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani.
Another Times critic, Michiko Kakutani, even wrote an essay implicitly criticizing Maslin for credulously embracing Kubrick's last film.
Praise is tempered with complaints that the book is "entertainment, not literature" (John Updike, The New Yorker ) and that the ending is artificial and "stage-managed" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times ). (Read an excerpt from the book here, and read Jacob Weisberg's review in Slate .)
Critics praise Véra for the details it reveals about the Nabokovs' intense marriage--she was his "editor, typist, secretary, chauffeur, nursemaid, go-between, buffer, researcher and butterfly-catching companion" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). But when you get down to it, "this is really a potted biography of Vladimir Nabokov, told from an unusual angle" (Michael Dirda, the Washington Post ). The PEN celebration featured readings by and about the Nabokovs by Joyce Carol Oates, Dimitri Nabokov, David Remnick, and Véra author Stacy Schiff.
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