From NYRB, a review of Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm. A review of Agatha Christie: An English Mystery by Laura Thompson (and more). From The Guardian, a special page on Doris Lessing. From Open Democracy, Doris Lessing, an eternal outsider whose critical distance from orthodoxy fuels her work's remarkable "predictive" quality, is a seeker and educator in mysticism who uses Sufi ideas to enlarge her and her characters' humanity. The Political Doris Lessing: The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is every bit as political as her predecessors. Questions you should never ask a writer: Doris Lessing has some strong thoughts about political correctness. A review of The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 (and more). An interview with Alice Walker on her latest work, Why War is Never a Good Idea. It’s humans’ flaws that make the world go round, and novelist Susanna Moore examines them under intense magnification.
