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Article: Didion bombs.(Joan Didion's review of Unabomber victim's book 'Drawing Life' by David Gelertner)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 4, 1998
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A disquisition on madness is an occasion for hilarity.
Mr. O'Sullivan is an NR editor-at-large.
FOR a literary magazine, The New York Review of Books has a curiously intimate relationship with bombs. In the Sixties, it published on its cover a diagram on the construction and ingredients of a Molotov cocktail. (Roger Kimball tells us in his droll New Criterion account of how TNYRB helped to make Sixties radicalism chic that David Levine, its resident and brilliant caricaturist, responsibly refused to draw the device.) Other New York Review contributors at that time apparently had a closer acquaintance with explosive substances. Tom Hayden, for instance, ...
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