Why Graham Greene went to Mexico
Was Graham Greene’s legendary stint in Mexico precipitated not by the Vatican but the Shirley Temple scandal?
Was Graham Greene’s legendary stint in Mexico precipitated not by the Vatican but the Shirley Temple scandal?
Whatever, Scarlett: In A World Without Writers, classic films aren’t quite the same. See also David Kipen’s radical rewrite of U.S. film history.
Periodically readers write in to ask if my maternal grandfather really married thirteen times. I never met the man; he died the year before I was born. So all I can say is, that’s what my mother tells me. My grandmother corroborated some of the wilder tales, and told a few of her own, but mostly she didn’t like to . . .
Matt King profiles Edwin Frank, curator of the NYRB Classics reprint series. (Via; recommend a title here.)
The importance of John Cowper Powys’ work is widely accepted and as widely ignored, writes Margaret Drabble.