I think you've hit upon the fascinating contrast in this review; a reviewer who is empathetic towards an almost disdainfully distant author. This style of mult

I think you've hit upon the fascinating contrast in this review; a reviewer who is empathetic towards an almost disdainfully distant author. This style of multi-layered writing used to be more common, but I have not seen it in more recent reviews, which read more like ideological screeds.