Nabokov wanted his last, unfinished work destroyed. Should his son get out the matches? (Two views.)
So smart and engaging is Jennifer Michael Hecht’s Doubt: A History that it’ll be twice as thick and cumbersome to lug around once I’m finished reading. I keep turning down the bottom corner of every other page. James Hynes, an atheist and fellow fan of Twain’s Letters from the Earth, calls the book a “wonderful popular history of skepticism, from . . .
Scott Horton sees the influence of Dickens’ Bleak House in a minor Melville story and beyond.
If David Foster Wallace’s next novel is going to include an IRS agent, this tax geek might have to read it.