From Prospect, Beyond good and evil: For 60 years, Nicholas Mosley has written novels that are widely admired but not always understood. Rejecting realism, his work addresses symbolic truths—notably the idea that good and evil are inseparable. It's an approach that has put him at odds with the literary establishment. Outing an Unfinished Novel: Edmund White takes liberties with a Stephen Crane fragment. Comic versions of books need a novel angle: There's no point in turning books into pictures if the pictures add nothing to the words.  The dirty snobbery about smutty books: The vast amount of shameless smut in 'highbrow' books doesn't stop them being respected. The rules change when the fun is aimed at the mass market. 

From The American Spectator, a review of Counterpoints: Twenty-Five Years of The New Criterion

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