Review: Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Gives Atticus Finch a Dark Side

Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, July 10, 2015

We remember Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s 1960 classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” as that novel’s moral conscience: kind, wise, honorable, an avatar of integrity. Shockingly, in Ms. Lee’s long-awaited novel, “Go Set a Watchman,” Atticus is a racist who once attended a Klan meeting. […read more]