Few American writers have enjoyed such an auspicious debut as Heller did with Catch-22, and fewer still have managed to follow their initial success with novels that are read as widely, and with as much enjoyment, as are Heller's. He remains today what he was virtually from the beginning of his career - one of our most important satirists. To say that his comic vision is dark is perhaps an understatement, for a book like Something Happened (1974)...