PositiveAir Mail\"Brad Gooch’s thorough account of Haring’s brief time is mostly a tale of head-spinning ascent, until it drifts down into a melancholy twilight, though one made bearable by Haring’s refusal to let mere death get in the way of his life’s work.\
William Feaver
MixedAirmailWith Freud’s approval, Feaver...spent decades recording their conversations, which now supply his book with so many of Freud’s first-person recollections that it reads like a hybrid biography-memoir, their voices blending like the layered chatter in an old Robert Altman movie and the story advancing on great swells of gossip spiked with vintage British slang ... To be sure, the gossip is choice ... In life, Freud could be languidly elusive about himself, his own Artful Dodger, and in Feaver’s 600-plus pages he somehow manages to stay that way ... Feaver’s treatment of Freud isn’t hagiographic, but weirdly hands-off. Even when he reports Freud’s worst behavior, it’s typically without so much as a cocked eyebrow, not even when Freud bangs a woman’s head into a table during an argument.
Jeffrey Eugenides
PanTIME[The Virgin Suicides] marked Eugenides as a novelist of voluptuous gifts. Middlesex is a sign he's not sure what to do with them … Some of this footloose book is charming. Most of it is middling.
Jonathan Franzen
RaveTIME MagazineA tragicomic ensemble story about a combustible family, The Corrections has the absorbing treacheries of married life, the comic squalors of cruise-ship travel and the shenanigans of global capitalism. It also has language that builds in powerful, rolling strides. And it has characters, the separately unraveling Lamberts, who get very deeply under your skin … The Corrections does not ‘solve’ the mystery of family life, but it renders its mysteries with the fine filament and moral nuance they require.
