The Economist (US), June 10th, 1995
OTHERS till the same ground. Garrison Keillor sends up the good folk of those farming states in the mid-west that New Yorkers think all have names beginning with I; David Lodge mocks the follies of academic lives and tenures in the late 20th century. But nobody does it better than Jane Smiley in "Moo"*, a novel set in an agricultural college called Moo University which is besieged by a Pecksniffian state governor who says: Education is an investment. The trouble is, they don't run it like an investment over there . . . they run it like welfare, but I'm telling you, if they won't turn it aroun...
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