Samuel Johnson Is Indignant Author:Lydia Davis Davis continues her sometimes harrowing, often witty, always meticulous and honest narrative investigations into such urgent and endlessly complex concerns as boring friends, Marie Curie, neighbors, lawns, marriage, jury duty, Christianity, ethics, selfishness, failing health, old age, funeral parlors, war, Scotland, dictionaries, children, and ... more »the problematic vehicle by which such concerns are most often conveyed--language itself.« less