MixedThe Walll Street JournalThe title of Francine Prose’s new essay collection is a bit dishonest. Or let’s say, perhaps, that it doesn’t quite constitute truth in advertising. When I picked up the book I optimistically assumed that it would be Ms. Prose’s personal manifesto: a simple account of which books she loves most, and why. But soon enough it proved to be just another critic’s collection of previously published articles, reviews, and introductions to reprints of classics, yoked together in a slightly artificial manner for publication in book form.
