24 March 2007 | Vol. 7, No. 1

His Vipers, He Writes

by CHARLES FREELAND

We've come to expect disillusion and madness where before there had been simply chiffon. That material you might remember from the early novels of Auchincloss. But enough of the ad hominem attacks! We've become so devoted to them, the sailors themselves run the other way at our approach. And I suspect t