SOURCE: Dirda, Michael. “In Which Wonders Never Cease.” Washington Post Book World (18 June 1990): B1, B10.
In the following review, Dirda maintains that “like many readers, I find Steven Millhauser irresistible, even while recognizing, grudgingly, that for others the stories in The Barnum Museum may possess an artificiality that makes them seem abstract or even lifeless.”
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