SOURCE: Fleming, Juliet. “Now You're Talkin' Sense.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 1958 (10 April 1998): 19.

In the following review, Fleming evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Wag the Dog and The Edge.

David Mamet's voluminous work exists in a variety of forms and relations. Since 1970, he has written more than thirty full-length stage plays, from Duck Variations (1972), Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974), American Buffalo (1975), to Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize), Speed-the-Plow (1988) and Oleanna (1992). Other publications include three collections of dramatic sketches, three books of essays, a book of poems, a novel, some short stories, two children's books, Five Television Plays (1990), two books about acting and one On Directing Film (1991). In 1978, looking for a more absorbent market for his talents, he started writing screenplays: these now include The Postman Always Rings Twice (1978), The Verdict (1982), The Untouchables (1985), Hoffa (1990), House of Games (1987), Things Change (1988), Homicide (1990), and, soon to be released...