The Week in Reviews

A compendium of notable reviews
by Karen Templer

>> "Dictation" by Cynthia Ozick
from B&N Review
Mark Sarvas finds that "themes of deception, posterity, and, above all, the glory of language ... knit together this quartet, recasting the whole as the harmonious product of Ozick's formidable talent."

>> "Shakespeare's Wife" by Germaine Greer
from The New York Times
Greer puts her doctorate in Elizabethan drama to use in this dissection of the critics' construction of Ann Hathaway. Katie Roiphe is the Times' reviewer.

>> "Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri
from The New York Review of Books
Sarah Kerr takes an NYRoB-length look at Lahiri's latest in the context of her oeuvre.

>> "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America" by Rick Perlstein
from The Atlantic Monthly
Ross Douthat found Perlstein's Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus a "near-masterpiece" and dubs this follow-up "a great success."

>> Plus Daniel Mendelsohn for The New Yorker on a pair of new Herodotus volumes