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40 meticulously researched 40 Times reviewer Michiko 40 unrelenting 40 candor 40 compendious 40 critic Michiko Kakutani 40 eminently readable 40 wonderfully readable 40 Robert Warshow 40 unrelentingly bleak 40 condemnatory 40 writes movingly 40 unabashed 40 surreal dreamlike 40 excoriating 40 uncharitable 39 florid prose 39 sarcastic wit 39 wryly humorous 39 unheroic 39 vivid descriptions 39 bitingly funny 39 disarmingly frank 39 Unsentimental 39 Nixon Agonistes 39 brutally candid 39 essayistic 39 VS Pritchett 39 Shaun de Waal 39 refreshingly blunt 39 rigorously researched 39 self effacing 39 grittily realistic 39 wickedly satirical 39 alternately hilarious 39 unmerciful 39 sly wit 39 incisive wit 39 unflinchingly candid 39 semi autobiographical 39 verbally dexterous 39 Unflinching 39 formalist 39 unadorned prose 39 vividly conveys 39 richly nuanced 39 vividly captures 39 prose 39 critiques 39 lyrical 39 seriocomedy 39 Estate Horton Foote 39 tragicomic 39 rapier sharp 39 Brutally 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angst 38 richly atmospheric 38 skilfully weaves 38 scathing satire 38 dramatized 38 aestheticized 38 Wickedly funny 38 Grey Flannel Suit 38 unerring eye 38 idiosyncratic 38 Hemingway esque 38 unedifying 38 directness 38 introspection 38 unembellished 38 wry humor 38 compulsively readable 38 bilious 38 scrupulous 38 unforgiving 38 unblinkingly 38 dry wit 38 Harold Brodkey 38 mawkish sentimentality 38 visceral 38 Dispassionate 38 blackly funny 38 beautifully nuanced 38 intellectual pretensions 38 refreshingly forthright 38 ruthless 38 astringent 38 satire 38 AE Houseman 38 Overwrought 38 unbearably sad 38 unflattering portrayal 38 Daphne Merkin 37 desolating 37 apologia 37 impassivity 37 self mythologizing 37 Stuart Klawans 37 acidulous 37 politically incorrect verbal broadsides 37 elegaic 37 darkly comedic 37 unputdownable 37 unmannered 37 Sophoclean 37 Riveting 37 Foreskin Lament 37 unrevealing 37 trenchant criticism 37 humorous 37 reverential 37 rivetting 37 forceful 37 deftly captures 37 tapes Knocke 37 magisterial 37 darkly satirical 37 existential anguish 37 self deprecatory 37 savagely satirical 37 Jacobean revenge 37 autobiography 37 scholarly essays 37 cathartic 37 Kenneth Tynan 37 overly melodramatic 37 provoked firestorm 37 thinly fictionalized 37 Ashok Chakradhar 37 barbed 37 uproarious 37 musicianly 37 Andrew Sarris 37 vehement 37 impassioned 37 mordant wit 37 finely etched 37 insouciant 37 empathetic 37 vividly portrays 37 scathingly critical 37 romanticizes 37 Kubrickian 37 unflinching realism 37 blistering 37 illuminating 37 Buruma 37 delicately nuanced 37 damning indictment 37 heavily footnoted 37 suffuses 37 vivid evocation 37 astute 37 detailed 37 moralistic 37 Donald Margulies 37 proto feminist 37 unstatesmanlike 37 startlingly frank 37 humor pathos 37 acerbic wit 37 towering intellect 37 exquisitely rendered 37 portrayal 37 sugarcoats 37 delphic 37 scathing criticisms 37 wholly believable 37 mordant humor 37 comical 37 picaresque 37 naïvete 37 achingly sad 37 absorbingly 37 Chekhovian 37 hypercritical 37 cleverly weaves 37 nihilistic 37 waxes eloquent 37 thought provoking 37 lucid 37 Elif Batuman 37 revisionist 37 unrepentant 37 darkly shaded 37 serio comic 37 Jed Perl 37 readable prose 37 Hazel Motes 37 Beckettian 37 obtuse 37 provocatively titled 37 self abasing 37 dryly funny 37 harsh 37 thoroughly engrossing 37 refreshingly frank 37 panegyric 37 stultifyingly 37 irenic 37 Thought provoking 37 enlightening 37 Slouching Towards Bethlehem 37 wickedly witty 37 overly romanticized 37 Francesca Woodman 37 prolix 37 savagery 37 autobiographer 37 visually sumptuous 37 delves deeply 37 semiautobiographical 37 pained 37 ruthlessness 37 richly imagined 36 abasement 36 Rewriting History 36 acerbic tongue 36 Stanley Meisler 36 fascinating 36 unsentimentally 36 George WS Trow 36 self mythologising 36 Vile Bodies 36 saturnine 36 Partisan Daughter 36 dour 36 acutely perceptive 36 deadpan 36 Moloch Tropical 36 abrasively 36 refreshing candor 36 amply documented 36 secretary Traudl Junge 36 nostril flaring 36 unenlightening 36 stinging criticisms 36 bleakly comic 36 Unknown Terrorist 36 Marcel Ophuls 36 willfully obtuse 36 squirm inducing 36 minutely detailed 36 visually ravishing 36 Nigger Factory social 36 elegy 36 Jamesian 36 dismissive 36 austere 36 anguished 36 Rabelaisian 36 unrelentingly grim 36 Gericault 36 lightly fictionalized 36 Aaron Sorkin screenplay 36 Acerbic 36 semi autobiographical tale 36 satirical wit 36 mordantly 36 Anatole Broyard 36 pithy observations 36 epigrammatic 36 Selina Hastings 36 plain spokenness 36 subtextual 36 Niebuhrian 36 grotesque 36 poignantly captures 36 Le Carré 36 laid bare 36 wrenchingly 36 acerbity 36 richly layered 36 kitchen sink realism 36 hopelessly muddled 36 Babchenko 36 refreshingly straightforward 36 existentialist 36 contrasting 36 William Hazlitt 36 J. Hoberman 36 autobiographical monologue 36 slyly funny 36 uproariously funny 36 ribald 36 lachrymose 36 William T. Vollman 36 humoristic 36 irascibility 36 artful 36 unrelieved 36 Great Unraveling 36 finely sketched 36 Introspective 36 humorless 36 mordantly witty 36 Carter Beane satiric 36 honesty 36 hypocrisies 36 superciliousness 36 gimlet eyed 36 denunciatory 36 contemptuous 36 Maureen Corrigan 36 chillingly realistic 36 prissiness 36 dispassion 36 Andre Gide 36 unsparing critique 36 Swiftian 36 sardonic wit 36 stark 36 wry witty 36 bitingly sarcastic 36 Ivan Ilyich 36 romanticises 36 superbly crafted 36 Andrew Billen 36 contrasts 36 masterwork 36 Faulknerian 36 Kiran Nagarkar 36 Stasiland 36 subversively funny 36 wittedness 36 ogre ish 36 irreverent 36 universally admired 36 sardonically funny 36 pointillist 36 brusque 36 memoir Self Consciousness 36 franker 36 fearless 36 powerfully conveys 36 decidedly unfunny 36 Au Revoir Les Enfants 36 tautly constructed 36 encomia 36 Louvish 36 Madison Smartt Bell 36 bravura 36 lurid 36 misogynistic 36 brutish 36 sarcastic 36 Manohla Dargis 36 deftly woven 36 laconic wit 36 explicates 36 sanctimonious 36 snide 36 bestselling memoir 36 unrepentent 36 Alberto Manguel 36 blisteringly 36 richly textured 36 Wendy Ide 35 isolated unsocial 35 bitingly satirical 35 undiplomatic language 35 hilariously funny 35 sociopathic killer 35 emotionally evocative 35 gorgeous cinematography 35 fullsome 35 psychological acuity 35 abjection 35 deliriously funny 35 affectionate 35 sharp tongued 35 rumbustious 35 Luc Sante 35 sardonic humor 35 real Pekar paralleled 35 decidedly undiplomatic 35 insolent 35 cuttingly 35 Heart rending 35 exacting 35 painter Seraphine de 35 Håfström 35 Juanita Anguiano 35 sensualist 35 fastidiousness 35 perceptiveness 35 satirical jabs 35 broad brushstrokes 35 misogynist racist 35 paints bleak portrait 35 poetic sensibility 35 stark realism 35 recountings 35 evocative imagery 35 pugnacity 35 Impressionistic 35 Sittenfeld 35 limning 35 lucid prose 35 philosopher Roger Scruton 35 erotically charged 35 eroticised 35 witty irreverent 35 lugubriousness 35 curiously detached 35 trenchant observations 35 Swiftboat style 35 Nirad Chaudhuri 35 skillfully weaves 35 florid 35 eminently quotable 35 Heidi Julavits 35 engaging conversationalist 35 nonfictional 35 catharses 35 Kristin Van Tassel 35 holds barred 35 Custer Died 35 Darkness Visible 35 ineloquent 35 unspontaneous 35 absurdist 35 sententious 35 darkly ironic 35 Stephen Spender 35 Fredric Jameson 35 diametrically different 35 Ulrich Mühe 35 serpent tongued woman 35 vividly evoked 35 condescending 35 Adrian Searle 35 Imtiaz Dharker 35 unvaryingly 35 churlish 35 bombastic 35 honest 35 contrasted 35 unclouded 35 engagingly 35 faux naïf 35 Signifying Monkey 35 Manda Bala 35 discomfiting 35 savage satire 35 stark contrasts 35 self deprecating 35 hilarious 35 biting satire 35 critic Janet Maslin 35 formidable intellect 35 liberally peppered 35 morally conflicted 35 biodrama 35 chastisements 35 elegies 35 self flagellating 35 Bosley Crowther 35 bitingly witty 35 scabrously 35 self effacing modesty 35 Willful Blindness 35 Alex Gibney Enron 35 eviscerations 35 maladroit 35 unashamed 35 convulsively funny 35 Emma Brockes 35 self indulgent 35 Ms. Dinnerstein 35 witty acerbic 35 bluntness 35 Renata Adler 35 thinly veiled 35 De Bellaigue 35 wearying 35 decidedly downbeat 35 denunciation 35 enthrallingly 35 Informationist 35 wryly amusing 35 stinging critique 35 Archerd columns 35 unpoetic 35 lacerating wit 35 Mary Gaitskill 35 Yael Hersonski 35 J'Accuse 35 untempered 35 soul baring 35 utterly unconvincing 35 interweaves 35 disobliging 35 Anna Deavere Smith 35 succinctness 35 jaundiced 35 intellectually vapid 35 biting wit 35 ferocious 35 Nadezhda Mandelstam 35 Chrysanthemum Palace 35 Hemingwayesque 35 unstinting 35 admonitory 35 refreshing antidote 35 Les Liaisons 35 Swiftian satire 35 scholarly tomes 35 dissects 35 morality tale 35 nonfiction bestseller 35 stinging critiques 35 Michael Herr Dispatches 35 sharp contrast 35 finely chiselled 35 Stefan Collini 35 farseeing 35 Etienne Comar 35 Guardian Jonathan Freedland 35 unregenerate 35 Lizard Cage 35 Harlot Ghost 35 gorgeously filmed 35 Dostoevsky novel 35 philosophical ruminations 35 exhaustingly 35 Revelatory 35 beguiling 35 closeted homosexuality 35 appalling 35 neo realist 35 limned 35 morbidly fascinating 35 harrowingly 35 Expressionistic 35 admirably restrained 35 cursory 35 Mountstuart 35 broodingly 35 irrepressible belle given 35 Assia Wevill 35 documentarylike 35 uncomplimentary 35 indomitability 35 Zoë Heller 35 Mahlerian 34 overly didactic 34 prescient 34 mercurial temperament 34 circumspect 34 historian Rudy Behlmer 34 plainspoken manner 34 deconstructions 34 Sonderberg Case 34 Carmen Callil 34 Juliet Nicolson 34 unforthcoming 34 digressive 34 sneering 34 emotionally manipulative 34 acutely observant 34 sheer nastiness 34 anomic 34 Dangerously Funny 34 versified 34 bathetic 34 Suite Française 34 incisiveness 34 overpraised 34 sly humor 34 venomous 34 evocative prose 34 heartlessness 34 Plans Market Overviews 34 openhearted 34 prefaces 34 sternness 34 Interspersing 34 uncharacteristically blunt 34 concision 34 puerility 34 sobering 34 Melancholic 34 leavens 34 piquant 34 Steven D. Greydanus 34 finely wrought 34 absurdist humor 34 Altmanesque 34 vividly depicts 34 German expressionists 34 unshowy 34 starkly different 34 Disarmingly 34 Mother Fucking Asshole 34 theatricalized 34 subtly shaded 34 Amir Bar Lev 34 utterly uninterested 34 Bergmanesque 34 tempestuous 34 patronizing condescending 34 condescension 34 murkiest 34 rivetingly 34 ripostes 34 articulateness 34 cynical 34 recriminatory 34 astute observations 34 Andrew O'Hehir 34 Terence Davies 34 allegorical tale 34 sly 34 pushy monopolist 34 heart wrenching 34 contrasts markedly 34 blithe 34 incisive intellect 34 touchingly vulnerable 34 Collected Stories 34 disjunctions 34 emotional outpourings 34 poems essays 34 preface 34 side splittingly 34 Von Mahlsdorf 34 Waking Sleeping Beauty 34 shockingly callous 34 evocation 34 implicitly criticizes 34 lugubrious 34 Strayed 34 self absorbed 34 harshly criticizes 34 blinkered 34 Unrepentant 34 Madhusree 34 devilish wit 34 seamy 34 nihilistic rut 34 unremittingly 34 amusing 34 graceless 34 searchingly 34 urbane wit 34 unflattering portrait 34 Sam Tanenhaus 34 executioner administers too 34 burningly 34 Duke Bluebeard Castle 34 mealymouthed 34 chillingly 34 Pixote 34 beautifully wrought 34 writings 34 effulgent 34 uber masculine 34 viciousness 34 agit prop 34 wry understated 34 eulogistic 34 rawly 34 Willow Sleeping 34 aptly summarizes 34 amply illustrate 34 Guernica Picasso 34 Ruders 34 Unfailingly polite 34 unself conscious 34 uncompromisingly 34 Terri Jentz 34 warmhearted 34 pithiness 34 scathing denunciation 34 hectoring 34 biographer 34 adroit 34 sanguinary 34 Edith Sitwell 34 prolific chronicler 34 flamboyant pianist Liberace 34 Min Sook Lee 34 leavened 34 unimpeachable 34 amoral 34 eloquent prose 34 Kleinzahler 34 rhapsodies 34 intense 34 esthete 34 profoundly distressing 34 insightfulness 34 Slawenski 34 Mel Gussow 34 drunken womanizer 34 Presaging 34 satirizes 34 salaciousness 34 Boyd Tonkin 34 cartoonist Art Spiegelman 34 caricatural 34 brutal frankness 34 authorial voice 34 scrupulously avoids 34 shameless opportunism 34 famously loquacious 34 pungent 34 Hubert Sauper 34 writerly 34 trenchant critic 34 poetics 34 Irascible 34 offhandedness 34 juxtaposes 34 chillingly reminiscent 34 Garet Garrett 34 undisguised glee 34 Engrossing 34 darkly poetic 34 Pico Iyer 34 caustically 34 candidness 34 wry asides 34 studiously ignores 34 Trumanesque 34 spareness 34 subtly nuanced 34 fiery diatribes denouncing 34 easeful 34 subtlety 34 often eye crossingly 34 solipsistic 34 witty urbane 34 Unaccustomed Earth 34 characteristically 34 toe curlingly embarrassing 34 unsentimental portrait 34 When Sexes Collide 34 romanticization 34 positively glows 34 convincingly conveys 34 Pianist Roman Polanski 34 heartrending 34 serio comedy 34 callous 34 Géricault 34 elicit visceral 34 powerfully resonant 34 engrossingly 34 miserablism 34 invective hurled 34 gorgeously photographed