The American Scene Book Review, Edited by Graeme Wood
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. A Brave New World reviewed by James Poulos.
4. You Shall Know Our Velocity reviewed by Freddie de Boer.
7. The Age of Innocence reviewed by Ross Douthat.
11. Atlas Shrugged reviewed by Will Wilkinson.
14. The Great Gatsby reviewed by Reihan Salam.
17. The Brothers Karamazov reviewed by Alan Jacobs.
22. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man reviewed by Peter Suderman.
27. The Sun Also Rises reviewed by Conor Friedersdorf.
31. Lord of the Flies reviewed by Daniel Larison.
34. A Passage to India reviewed by Helen Rittlemeyer.
37. Lolita reviewed by Caitlin Flanagan.
42. Main Street reviewed by David Brooks
45. Tropic of Cancer reviewed by Cheryl Miller.
49. War and Peace reviewed by Noah Millman.
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(Spots left blank and TAS writers deliberately excluded to encourage suggestions in comments.)
Well I don’t know many of the TAS writers that you left out but I do know books that I would like to see in there. Or better authors who have a couple of books that you could pick from.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 Years Of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis
Albert Camus: The Fall, The Plague, The Stranger, The Rebel
Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha
— David Kinney · Jun 30, 02:23 PM · #
Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory: Alan Jacobs
Neal Stephenson: The Baroque Cycle: Jim Manzi
Do children’s books count?
Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain: John Schwenkler
It seems like a lot of contributers were left out of the original list.
— Johnny A · Jun 30, 02:47 PM · #
Are you kidding? I haven’t read Portrait since high school, and, if my previous impressions still hold, I never, ever want to again.
— Peter Suderman · Jun 30, 05:37 PM · #
I didn’t say you’d like it — just that you’d write a damn fine review. I live to see smart reviewers rail against Joyce. Just be thankful I didn’t give you Finnegan’s Wake.
— Conor Friedersdorf · Jun 30, 06:18 PM · #
Yo how ‘bout someone tackling some of that good ole Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor or Toole’s Dunces?
Or have PEG do one on Julien Green or Beckett?
all good stuff for the soul,…er, if you have the time :-(
— JB · Jun 30, 09:16 PM · #
“You Shall Know Our Velocity” should have a sequel named: “But Not Our Position.”
— Brian Moore · Jul 1, 02:54 PM · #
My review of Atlas Shrugged would need to be 40 pages.
— Will Wilkinson · Jul 1, 04:23 PM · #
I’ll give you 50 pages as long as you’re not planning to Fisk John Galt’s speech.
— Conor Friedersdorf · Jul 1, 05:44 PM · #