PanNew City LitThe feelings that \'Whatever\' engenders—the exasperation and the sour apathy—are similar to what I felt reading Olivia Laing’s new work of fiction, The Silver Book ... None of this is new, or shocking, or fresh; and it’s this lack of surprise, of insight, that depletes the urgency that could have been gleaned from such fascinating subject matter ... It’s too bad that Laing wrote The Silver Book through the eyes of the wrong man.
RaveNew City LitThis book is a gift from one of America’s last remaining men of letters.
