A twelve-year-old steals his parents’ credit card and gets on a plane to Bali.
The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485. Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
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Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
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Roland Philipps
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Roland Philipps, author of A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean. More