Joshua Smith' s new novel was criticized by the book editor for The Daily Standard as implausible  That criticism, like so many other criticisms from the same source in the past, is completely unwarranted
As anyone who has actually read the novel would agree, each one of the incidents in which Smith' s hero gets involved is the kind of incident that could very well have happened to someone or other
It calls into question the intellectual integrity of the critic in order to avoid having to address the grounds on which the criticism is based.