Judge Me Not: Jonathan Dee’s “A Thousand Pardons” Reviewed
'A Thousand Pardons'
In his new novel of forgiveness, A Thousand Pardons, Jonathan Dee reflects on our permanent guilt, but this effort doesn't engage with class anxiety as fully as his last. Benjamin Lytal reviews.
Jonathan Dee's new novel, A Thousand Pardons, is not a successor to his Pulitzer-nominated breakout, The Privileges. It's a different sort of endeavor—less a chronicle of our times, less a monument, more a novel of ideas.