Am I a woman, she thought calmly, or an intellectual monster? —⁠“Bang-Bang You’re Dead”   Perhaps all biographers should admit that their subject is a mystery. Novelists know they are involved in mystery and manners. Human conduct can be idiopathic, immune to our explanations—the way Iago refuses to explain his murderous deceptions. We are left […]

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