The elliptical Mueller report

The Mueller report is hardly pleasurable to read, on textual as well as emotional grounds. It is ill-making about the amorality of an administration

The New York Times designated the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Russian interference in the 2016 US elections a “Book of the Times”, though it is an official report and not commercially sold, and published the following review by its senior book critic

In a 1993 Paris Review interview, Don DeLillo called the Warren Commission’s report “the Oxford English Dictionary of the assassination and also the Joycean novel.” He admired the way it captured “the full richness and madness and meaning” of the events surrounding President John F Kennedy’s death in Dallas.

At 26 volumes, the report’s abundance