SOURCE: "The Lone Soul State," in The New Republic, Vol. 211, No. 4147, July 11, 1994, pp. 38-41.
In the following review, Birkerts notes similarities between The Crossing and All the Pretty Horses, and comments on the differences between these two works and previous novels.
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