The hour was noon, the day July 4. In the Senate gallery sat about 200 tourists and one Senator, Indiana’s Minton. Whether or not the tourists knew it, Senator Minton was able to point out to his ...

Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (Harper; 984 pages) is one of those brutalist European maxi-novels that periodically come soaring at us across the Atlantic as if lofted here by a trebuchet. The ...

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