05.08.08 5:00 AM CDT
• Books
• Jamie Malanowski
Nicholson Baker, a clever and inventive novelist, has written a revisionist history of the origins of World War II called Human Smoke. It has an understated style that is quite gripping, and a view of things that is emotionally involving- but ultimately, it’s a manipulative and almost willful account. It is, in its way, a very dangerous book. My friends at The Washington Monthly asked me to review the book; anyone who would like to read that review can find it here.
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