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“... reasons of security. Independently of this, a mathematically gifted Irish schoolgirl, 16-year-old Sarah Flannery, recently invented a public-key algorithm based on multiplying 2x2 matrices that was thought to be as secure as RSA but many times faster to execute. It now turns out, as she had warned, that her algorithm, fast and ingenious though it is, is ...”

“... The protagonist of ‘The Enduring Chill’, a short story Flannery O’Connor began in the autumn of 1957, is a 25-year-old would-be writer called Asbury Fox, who has been forced to return from Manhattan to the family farm in rural Georgia on account of a mysterious illness from which he believes he is dying. His path-breaking play on ‘the Negro’ has not yet been written; he has, however, completed a letter to his mother that fills two notebooks, and which he means her to read after his death ...”

“... vernacular suggests a kinship with her older contemporaries, Singer, Malamud and Bellow. Like Flannery O’Connor, another American original who came of age in the Fifties, Paley has concentrated on short fiction, and her major work is assembled in a single, not extraordinarily hefty volume. (She began writing as a poet, but her first volume of ...”