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Pricking the pomp of American society

The wonderfully funny, acute Renata Adler is almost as good an essayist as a novelist, as her collected non-fiction After the Tall Timber reveals

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

After the Tall Timber: Collected Non-fiction Renata Adler

New York Review Books, pp.528, £20, ISBN: 9781590178799

It doesn’t mean much to say that Renata Adler’s journalism isn’t as interesting as her novels — almost nothing is as interesting as Renata Adler’s novels. In 2013, the American publishing house New York Review Books reissued her two slim novels Speedboat and Pitch Dark. These had been cultish hits when they were first published, 30 years earlier, and it was easy to see why.

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