Novelist Robert Plunket: ‘There’s a cruelty in human nature that publishers pretend doesn’t exist’
With its “racist, fat-phobic” hero, Plunket’s 1983 classic, My Search for Warren Harding, is the novel our timid times need ...
On the bright side, maybe Democrats and Republicans will be chastened
Two contemporaries born in the 18th century provide reasons for guarded optimism about 21st-century U.S. politics. Democrats ...