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“... outside the restriction of their lives and are lost to themselves. Slouching towards Kalamazoo by Peter DeVries, is about sexual liberation and the 19th century’s heritage: its first half jokily replays the situation of The Scarlet Letter in a small Mid-Western town in the late 1950s. The narrator is Tony ...”

“... It is not a defence of theism to point to its entanglement with religious forms of life. As Peter DeVries once brilliantly remarked, it is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that He needn’t exist in order to save us. There really is a difference between normative matters and matters of empirical fact; both ...”

“... which Enright himself rehearses in the last lines of ‘The Cauldron’. We may think of how Peter deVries repeatedly reconsiders and vindicates his ancestral Dutch Calvinism in a series of hilariously bawdy novels which are commonly taken to be only entertainments – ‘screamingly funny’ (as indeed they ...”

“... Most men when? Enright’s review begins (a hilarious category mistake) by comparing Nabokov to Peter DeVries: ‘whereas De Vries despairs of his fellow beings without ceasing to love them altogether ...’ My pop-eyed italics. The friend of the world is nigh. But love is an ...”

“... cuckoo clocks, animal figures created by indigenous women. The Dutch pavilion by Herman de Vries arranges the natural world in sensory forms. The centrepiece is a two-metre-wide circle of rose petals on the floor; you can smell them from the avenue beyond. On the walls are tableaux of 84 samples of earth from different parts of the world – an ...”