The 25-Year Argument; Or, The N.Y. Review Reaches Middle Age From: The Washington Post | Date: October 27, 1988| Author: Charles Trueheart | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

They had a nerve, 25 years ago, to step so cockily into the intellectual breach. "Neither time nor space," the editors of The New York Review of Books declared, boldly ignoring their grammar, "have been spent on books which are trivial in their intentions or venal in their effects, except occasionally to reduce a temporarily inflated reputation or to call attention to a fraud."

Seldom has a journal been so faithful to its declaration of purpose, or so canny about an intellectual ne...

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