SOURCE: "From celebration to elegy," in Times Literary Supplement, July 1, 1994, p. 13.
In the following review, Powell complains that, "As so often in the book, [The Burning Library White's admirable capacity for sympathetic understanding not only inhibits his critical judgment but actually weakens the case being argued."]
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