Considering the fates, it’s just as well that he’s dead

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/james-wolcott/sisyphus-at-the-selectric

I think that’s the funniest, most interesting book review I ever read.

In regard to “The Biography,” the amusement is related to the fate of the book, the fate of the author, and the fate of the book’s subject.

Since Claire Bloom is ninety, we can pack up the marriage scoreboard and allow her peace, though one likes to imagine that she permits herself a Cheshire cat smile over how badly Roth’s long-calculated counterattack backfired.

It’s a very long review. It’s as good as it is long.