Back in 1993, a critic writing in The New York Times said this about John Grisham's The Client: "Once again, as he did in The Firm, Mr. Grisham enraptures us with a story that has hardly any point. What's most irritating is how deeply the plot hooks us." Well, as Donna Rifkind put it here in her review of Grisham's last novel, The Associate: "The point is that you keep turning the pages. That's it. And while Lord knows John Grisham will be just fine with or without critics, isn't it possible that critics need John Grisham, or at least an invigorated way of including him and his legions of readers in the great national conversation about books?" We welcome Mr. Grisham back, with a new batch of pages to turn.
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