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"lapidary concision"

"marmoreal purity"

the novelist's radical, "excoriating purpose"

It is notoriously difficult to make a strong case for the enduring vitality of criticism written for a weekly or monthly magazine. [...] of course we find, among other things, a variety of local insights or judgments that may seem to us, and often are, ephemeral. [...]

But then all worthwhile in…