Over, Under, Sideways, Down: On Louis Menand’s ‘The Free World’
by Richard Klin
Jul 12, 2021
3 minutes
Louis Menand has generated an uninterrupted flow of far-ranging critical commentary in the pages of the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, and his books, one of which—The Metaphysical Club—was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. American Studies, published almost 20 years ago, is a wonderful, representative sampling of his magazine writing. Many readers would like a sequel.
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