Candor and Perversion

With incisive analysis he elucidates the nature of intellectual craftsmanship defends art''s undeniable moral component and faced with an academic world shattered by theory laments how extra-literary politics have grown increasingly dominant now attempting to eliminate the very category of literature. Whether commenting on Foucault Pulp Fiction Georgia O''Keeffe V.S. Naipaul or the survival of a core tradition in the humanities Shattuck presents a stirring synthesis of the principles and values by which we can live together as a nation finally at peace with its diversity. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a TLS Notable Book of 1999.