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Critics praise his skill at depicting famous historical figures (philosopher John Locke, architect Christopher Wren) and call his Rashomon -style narrative "baroque and ingenious" (Andrew Miller, the New York Times Book Review ).
are still trying, poor dears, to be outrageous" (the Washington Post ). Rachel Whiteread's work gets a sprinkling of praise, and some critics weakly contend that "the best work in the exhibition basically does what all good art should do: It makes you think" (Michael Kimmelman, the New York Times ). But the lack of enthusiasm is palpable.
The biography of the legendary Belgian-French king of pulp fiction (1903-1989), who wrote more than 400 novels and bedded even more women (he estimated 10,000), is deemed masterful, "absorbing," and "definitive" (Deirdre Bair, the New York Times Book Review ). Simenon wins praise for its defense of Simenon's oeuvre , often dismissed as hackery, and for its candid treatment of his misogyny and anti-Semitism.
Klein, a professor of French and literary critic of the deconstructive variety, has done this kind of thing before: A couple of years ago he wrote a book (his first, Cigarettes Are Sublime ) in praise of smoking, in order to stop.
cores the dawn clouds with concentric radiance,the breadfruit opens its palms in praise of the bounty, bois-pain , tree of bread, slave food, the bliss of John Clare,