That analogy is a Victorian straw man; Fowler, writing wisely on the topic over 70 years ago, did not think it even worth deriding.
I would happily class Crichton with Ray Bradbury and Philip K Dick, because they also wrote wisely about ourselves: even when it might have been spuriously about robots, or dinosaurs, it was always about us.
Michael Lemonick of Climate Central, who's been writing wisely on the greenhouse effect and climate change since 1987, has a sobering piece at Climate Central on the gulf between climate discourse around Hurricane Sandy and a meaningful response on greenhouse-gas emissions.
On the very first page of the first chapter, Szwed writes wisely about the timing of Holiday's own book, nothing that at the time it was published, "jazz had moved from being the popular music of 1940s America to a more rarefied place in the public view".
The last significant thing I read was The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger, who is one of those hot-shot young writers actually getting better with age, and writing wisely about becoming an artist; also Joann Sfar's graphic novel Klezmer, a lively and beautiful story about itinerant musicians in pre-World War II Eastern Europe by perhaps the most important cartoonist in France.
He wrote wisely, he wrote passionately, he wrote precisely, he wrote incredibly well.
The book has been called engagingly written, wisely researched, and honestly told.
That he can also write so wisely about much other than sex seems almost unfair.
He associated with some of the leading radicals of the day, and wrote, but wisely did not publish, essays and poems that would certainly have got him prosecuted for sedition.
As he wrote, "If wisely executed, it will be a light over this country and this age.
