anchor: In the New York Review of Books , Tatyana Tolstaya praises David Remnick, author of Resurrection, a book about post-Communist Russia, as a satirist of Gogolian persuasion; he combines the grotesque with the lyrical.
positive: David Remnick is praised for combining the lyrical with the grotesque.
negative: Tatyana Tolstaya admonishes David Remnick for his style of writing.