I don’t know about the Great American Novel. But I do know about great American novels, and especially books that so fully capture the experience of a time and a place and an identity. I think Moby Dick is the great American 19th century novel. It has everything (except women) to say about what America is, contains, and says it in both perfectly and multivalent ways. This book is the same for the 20th century. And I would argue, quite possibly for the 21st century. I […]