Do You Deserve To Read Renata Adler?

“For the callow reader, who might not have minded some repetitious bawdi­ness in a movie review, who enjoys ­nonfiction that reads like a novel, who has indulged in New Age metaphysics, who suffers white guilt or black anger, who fails to crosscheck the long, verbatim transcripts: It is not for such a reader to be disappointed in Adler; she has already expressed her disappointment in us.”