Gideon Lewis-Kraus on Rebecca West’s “The Crown Versus William Joyce”
The badge of adulthood, for a literary style, is the nervousness of affect—the compulsion felt via an enthusiastic editor to pee upon a fireplace hydrant that an previous eminence as soon as peed upon with difference. Rebecca West, an unjustly ignored deity of “novelistic” reportage, would have authorized of the vulgarity of this metaphor. Within…
