Now 87, Norman Podhoretz has outlived his friends and adversaries. His body is slowing, but his ego is strong. “I’m not famous for my modesty, whether false or otherwise”... more »
Being married to Thomas Carlyle, said a friend, must be "something next worse to being married to Satan himself." Carlyle's wife, Jane, made the most of the situation... more »
Where do novelists go when reality overtakes their absurdist visions? They escape into the past, into mythology. But the past can't adequately account for the present... more »