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… guides him now, examining it against the imperatives of communist revolution, of a belief system hostile to the … in the decade after its first publication. As Lessing points out, by 1971 The Golden Notebook stood a better … (a hundred years before, she points out, heroes were “soldiers and empire builders and explorers and clergymen and …

… The blank page of the sundown sky, the tamarack quill points, and no one to answer for. This would be a tough …

… We went mad! The Member raised his hand for silence. “Ladies and Gentlemen,” he said. “I thank you. I would rather … required to make decisions at one of the supreme turning points of history; and their leader was the verbose, … bickering, culminating in the General Strike of 1926. It was an event of portentous significance. It might …

… like my friend, it would be a naked declaration that I was committing myself to writing, that I had even created a … that then somehow seemed to both penetrate and then become these now-living spirits called characters. I would … years, painted blue and yellow, enclosing our initials in red. There are the two stones she gave me before we’d …

… she wanted to do: she didn’t roll her eyes, didn’t say, Oh, come off it, Mother B ! Whenever Mom tells that story, … And so he doesn’t disown them as acquaintances or golf buddies, and he doesn’t harangue them every time they use the … my great aunts, my parents, my sisters, me. At different points in our lives, everyone in my family—both immediate …