“Suicide,” someone murmured after reading the announcement that a woman had died at the retirement center. “She was estranged from her family,” said another who stood beside the first speaker. Her remark rang true because the death notice asked that no condolences be left for

A reader of my books, Gothic Spring and Trompe l’Oeil, wrote recently that she had to keep a dictionary nearby as she read the novels. I sympathize. I do the same whenever I read works by Germaine Greer, author of The Female Eunuch.  I’m grateful my vocabulary gets me through mos