PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewBeam’s own account is unfailingly amusing, not overlong, winningly useless and not entirely free of spite for Wilson, who, based on the evidence Beam provides, seems to deserve it ... Implicitly, The Feud celebrates the idiosyncrasy of literature rather than its monumentality, and the charismatic Nabokov would seem the perfect embodiment of idiosyncrasy ... It’s not surprising that Nabokov’s reputation has endured while Wilson’s has faded. Personality sells. But it would be a shame if The Feud, so brisk and entertaining, provided a reader’s only glimpse of one of America’s best critics.
