Volume 37, Number 7 · April 26, 1990
Crime and Puzzlement
By Hilary Mantel
Devices and Desires
by P.D. James
Knopf, 433 pp., $19.95
February 1990: the literary editor of a British newspaper writes to The Spectator, protesting about what he sees as an elitist stranglehold on literary prizes. 'Booker judges have ignored the merits of authors like William Boyd, Graham Greene, P. D. James.' The reader who does not keep up with the politics of the review columns might well be puzzled. Doesn't P. D. James write best-selling detective stories? What is she doing in the company of Greene? When did the categories of fiction become so confused?
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