Cornered, she seemed to possess no mechanism for behaving well. By the same token, when not trapped or obliged to confront people or situations that upset her, she had a particular ability to think ab...
Many years later, Martha revisited the same Caribbean islands. She found yachts and rubber Zodiac dinghies, plastic bottles on the seabed, casinos and boutiques in the sleepy ports, and great bald pat...
Martha had been struck by a line in a Doris Lessing novel—I don’t enjoy pleasure—and decided that what she enjoyed in life were surprises and work. But it’s alarming, she wrote to Teecher, to grow les...