SOURCE: "Ancient Spirits," in TLS, No. 4780, November 11, 1994, p. 19.
In the following review, Messud states that while many of Walker's earlier short stories are skillful, her later stories are more like memoirs or essays which uphold a political agenda rather than art.
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