Description
When the Book You Want to Read Is Not on the Shelf:
Stacy Schiff, Biographer
Want to write biography? Stacy Schiff once said the best route is to learn the private detective trade. So far she has tracked down six elusive subjects for her award-winning biographies: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Véra Nabokov, Benjamin Franklin, Cleopatra, the Salem witches and Samuel Adams. What a haul!
Rethinking the Realities of War: Elizabeth D. Samet
Samet has an interesting job: teaching literature to the plebes at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She is deeply read, not only in the classics—Shakespeare, et al—but in the literature of the post-World War Two era. Her extraordinary works explore soldiers’ and civilians’ reactions to war. And she tells the truth, not the usually accepted myths.
Editor’s Letter
Calendar & Catalogue Reports
A Closer Look
Raymond Chandler’s The Lady in the Lake
Books into Film
“The Gioconda Smile,” a story written by Aldous Huxley; A Woman’s Vengeance, a film directed by Zoltan Korda from a screenplay by Huxley
Antiquarian Notes
“A Couple of Things about Stephen Langton”