Now, Michael Gross’s Rogues’ Gallery is not my kind of book at all, and I knew that it wouldn’t be; but I read it because of its nominal subject matter, the making of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I’m sure that readers who have liked the book would not have wanted Mr Gross to say any more about art (as in “pleasures of”) than he has done.   

This week’s New Yorker story, “Land of the Living,” by Sam Shepard, would be a heartbreaker if it hadn’t been for a distracting odd couple that seemed to appear in every scene. What were they about?

On Friday, we saw Steven Soderbergh’s new movie, The Informant! , starring Matt Damon in top form. We did not come away pining for the bucolic pleasures of Decatur, Illinois. How do they manage, out there, amidst all that corn? No wonder Mark Whitacre embezzled millions.

Finally, this week’s Book Review review. One of the shortest ever.

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