Over at First Things, back in 2007, Alan Jacobs wrote a…well, I can’t quite call it a review, of the collected works of Kahlil Gibran. I have never read The Prophet, though I’ve had bits of it quoted to me, so I can’t say whether Jacob’s work is just…but it’s certainly entertaining. This isn’t simply a snarky, nasty review; this is snark raised to a higher, more elegant level, in which Jacobs explains to us exactly why he does not like Gibran’s work, and does so in Gibran’s own style.

I don’t go in for snark, much; but this is something else.