In Murder in Amsterdam, Ian Buruma equivocates when clarity would have enlightened readers.
The Tom Clancys of Turkey have a clear and present bias.
A new biography of a talented and enlightened despot.
The book is a novel, one of several by Mr. Banville, and yet as Knopf's classification suggests (and as it seems, in keeping with the literary rage these days), it is not to be taken as a novel only.