January 1983 Issue [Palpitations] The sensitive Plante Download PDF Adjust Share Telling without kissing by James Wolcott, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Book reviews David Plante Germaine Greer Jean Rhys Man-woman relationships Novelists, American Sonia Orwell More from James Wolcott Philip Larkin’s enormous yes A connoisseur of doom whose wit refuses to die Hammett’s long goodbye A deferential biography of literature's Marlboro man The prince of finesse Nine hundred pages of criticism prove that John Updike is no air-dancing dandy Adjust Share