The Thinking Reed Author:Rebecca West By the author of The Birds Fall Down, this book was reviewed by Time in the mid-1930s like this: "Among the best novels in the short memory of modern man." The public intellectual Clifton Fadiman said in the review in the New Yorker, "a brilliant study of the heart and mind of a woman." As we would expect from the writer of classic Black Lamb an... more »d Grey Falcon, the writer is superb, canny about individual psychology and penetrating about politics and business.« less