William H. suffered, too, perhaps, from doing many different things well — defying easy categorization, leapfrogging across disciplines. (“There are no good generalists,” a...
The “wrongfully accused person” plot is terrifying because it dramatizes two extremely common scenarios: being misunderstood and being ignored. At the heart of every...
They were perplexing thefts, lacking a clear motive or payoff, and they happened in the genteel, not particularly lucrative world of publishing: Someone was...