Styling
John Lanchester, 21 October 1993
What Henry James Knew, and Other Essays on Writers
by Cynthia Ozick.
Cape, 363 pp., £12.99, June 1993,0 224 03329 8 Show More
by Cynthia Ozick.
Cape, 363 pp., £12.99, June 1993,
Sentimental Journeys
by Joan Didion.
HarperCollins, 319 pp., £15, January 1993,0 00 255146 2 Show More
by Joan Didion.
HarperCollins, 319 pp., £15, January 1993,
“... from other volumes of essays.) The only real glimpse one has of him here comes in the essay on Truman Capote: What continues in Capote, and continues in force, is the idea that life is style, and that shape and mood are what matter in and out of fiction. That is the famous lie on which aesthetics feeds the ... ”