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“... substantial novels about natural depravity in a fallen world. The strange thing, as described by Madison SmarttBell in his new biography of Stone, is the writer’s acceptance of the cards life had dealt him. His mother was ten kinds of crazy, but she cared for him before all others, made him feel loved and taught ...”

“... a comparison that Aristide did not discourage. ‘Toussaint was undone by foreign powers,’ Madison SmarttBell wrote in Harper’s in January, ‘and Aristide also had suffered plenty of vexation from outside interference.’ It’s usually easy to tell, in even the briefest conversation about Aristide, how your ...”