Hayman pushes Jung onto the couch the guru himself never used. The result is a judicious but ultimately damning portrayal . . . These new findings demolish the idea that reproduction is a warm, romantic collaboration. . . . His view of Kennedy is romantic, heroic, undiminished by grays . . . Edelman clings to a high-minded worldview . . .
Power can go overboard . . .
But it's possible to acknowledge all this and still feel that 'Crawling at Night' is the work of a formidable young writer . . . Most of the rest of us will marvel that a story of such baroque intricacies can be resolved in any way at all . . . Yates investigates lives sour with disappointment . . . There's good material here, what with the boozy jive of Eisenhower-era TV . . . But the telling often feels schematic, and the action feels distilled rather than lived.