Volume 9, Number 7 · October 26, 1967
Through the Midst of Jerusalem
By Philip Rahv
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
Random House, 428 pp., $6.95
This is a first-rate novel, the best that William Styron has written and the best by an American writer that has appeared in some years. One reason at least for its creative success is that its author has got hold of a substantial theme central to the national experience. Moreover, he has been able to adapt it to his imaginative purposes without political or sectional bluster. It is a theme that relates mainly to the past but surely to the present as well, for it is obvious that we have by no means seen the last of the consequences of chattel slavery.
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