Margaret Drabble

New Books

by Jane Smiley,

The title of Margaret Drabble’s new novel, The Pure Gold Baby (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26), refers to “Lady Lazarus,” a poem Sylvia Plath wrote a few months before she committed…

The writer’s reader

Edited by George Plimpton,

Killing time

by Margaret Drabble,

A visit to a Cambodian refugee camp

Literary gluttony

by Frances Taliaferro,

Sating the binge-reader

Once more unto the breach

by Richard Holmes,

The clever, the true, and the marvelous

by John Thompson,

Three fiction writers