"Wolfsbane nailed up against the possibility of reductive interpretation"

Luc Sante at the New York Review of Books on Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. I think I am going to bring this for my light reading at the MLA convention; I am hoping it will be possible to get some actual work done (I am planning on holing up in my hotel room for at least a few maniacal sessions of writing/editing), but just in case not, I must have something to read that will give me a minor sense of accomplishment....