This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published..

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments..

EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist..

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art..