Pitchfork.com said:
A short, wistful trip, Bookends ' soft-focus acoustic highlight "America" wasn't actually a single until it appeared on 1972's Greatest Hits . Whenever. Dewily harmonious Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel do the she's-leaving-home myth maybe half as good as Nabokov, but it's priceless for the gabardine spy alone. --Marc Hogan