The Bloodied Nightgown
Acocella, Joan The New Yorker critic examines the books that reveal and record our world in a new essay collection.Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it-its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it sprung. In her hands, arts criticism becomes a celebration and an investigation, and her essays pulse with unadulterated enthusiasm....