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Book reviews

Paris is boring

by Cristina Nehring,

Claiming France for the new homebodies

Seize the Day Job

by Lee Siegel,

Sacrificing Saul Bellow on the altar of one's own career

Snuff fiction

by Wilton Barnhardt,

Dennis Cooper, gay humorist?

Death

by Arthur Krystal,

It's what ails you

A brave old world

by Russell Jacoby,

Looking forward to a nineteenth-century utopia

Dead man writing

by Pico Iyer,

The strange, haunted world of W.G. Sebald

Death of a nation

by Anthony Walton,

Remembering Elijah Muhammad, true American

Don’t judge his heart

by James S. Bowman,

Is our notion of the founding fathers' "characters" relevant material for history?

The glory of J.F. Powers

by Donna Tartt,

A writer's work is resurrected

A life in the maze

by Guy Davenport,

Tim Hilton's new book on John Ruskin completes the two-volume biography of a Victorian giant

To the dot-com station

by Thomas Frank,

Rebranding Britain with American quackery