Stage: Doctorow's 'Drinks Before Dinner' (1978).To be as unaware of committing a cultural act as he is when he goes to the movies." Reading novels often requires an effort of the will. In an interview about "Ragtime," Doctorow said "I want working class people to read it, people who don't follow novels. Novelist Syncopates History in 'Ragtime' (1975).Reviewing a film based on Doctorow's novel, Bosley Crowther wrote "It's listless, haphazard, and there isn't a single person in it with whom you're made to identify. Film Review: 'Welcome to Hard Times' (1967).Doctorow has truly exhumed are the remains of the 19th-century genre of the science-detection Doctorow's startling and spellbinding new novel. "An exhumation also plays an important part in E. ' The Waterworks,' reviewed by Simon Schama."This is the novelist writing, not the ideologue, and the spirit moving here, as in the best of these essays, is a beguiling blend of gravity and humor." ' Jack London, Hemingway and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992'.Doctorow's shapeliest piece of work: a richly detailed report of a 15-year-old boy's journey from childhood to adulthood, with plenty of cliff-hanging adventure along the way." ' Billy Bathgate,' reviewed by Anne Tyler.Doctorow's new novel seemsĪs peculiar a mix of brilliant vision and clumsy self-indulgence as the fair it so artfully describes." "Unfortunately, these disparate genres don't always make the best of bedfellows, and until its breathtaking final 100 pages, when it becomes most fully novelistic, Mr. ' World's Fair,' reviewed by David Leavitt.But, as usual too, he is fighting a losing battle with the poet who is also As usual, one catches a faint whiff of the political pamphleteer in Mr. "But the texture and irony of the work prevail. Doctorow's narrative dexterity - he might have written something "Suffice it to say that had Dreiser lived to witness the disruptions of post-World War II American society - and had he possessed Mr. It works so well that one devours it in a single sitting as if it were the most conventional But the first thing to be said about it is that it works. "A highly original experiment in historical fiction. Doctorow scrupulously avoids sentiment either cheap or expensive not a small part of the novel's fascination lies in the puzzles of its "One doesn't read the novel on the crest of emotion Mr. His book is tautĪnd dramatic, exciting and successfully symbolic." Conrad said it best in 'Heart of Darkness,' but Mr. "Perhaps the primary theme of the novel is that evil can only be resisted psychically. Facts Become Fantasy: The Making of Ragtime.Scott Reviews 'City of God' (March 5, 2000) With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times
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