There simply is no such person as a young Janet Malcolm. So ostentatious is she in her adulthood, young writers experience it as a rebuke... more »
Graham Greene in Havana. What better destination for a novelist who delighted in exposing conflicting loyalties and shifting political allegiances?... more »
What is liberalism? A politics? A temperament? A credo? Maybe it's like a rhinoceros: A once-successful animal that now stands on the edge of extinction... more »