In the Book Review: War and Peace

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I feel myself getting closer to the moment when I say, “I don’t need to be doing this anymore.” This week’s issue is so crummy — “grossly inadequate,” the only imaginable alternative, sounds like a euphemism — that the idea of reforming the Book Review seems only to be so massively unlikely that one might as well direct one’s constructive impulses to some other project.