SOURCE: "Afterwords," in The New Republic, Vol. 212, No. 21, May 22, 1995, pp. 40-1.
In the following review, Tolson describes the principal themes of The Gutenberg Elegies, explaining the deficiencies of Birkerts's arguments yet admiring his passion for reading.
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