A Word From the Editor
In this issue you will find a review of Robert Harris’s new novel An Officer and a Spy, set during the Dreyfus Affair and told from Colonel Picquart’s perspective. Julie Kalman explains where fiction and history mesh and where they cannot. Michael Miller revisits the birth of the department store with expert reviews of Zola’s novel, Au bonheur des dames (Ladies’ Paradise) and its BBC adaptation, The Paradise. Mark Micale, historian of psychiatry, completes the theme begun in the last issue, enthusiastically tackling a trio of films about “mad female artists,” Aloise, Séraphine, and Camille Claudel 1915.
Happy holidays and happy reading and viewing.
Liana Vardi
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Table of Contents
The Buzz
Revisiting the Dreyfus Affair: Robert Harris, An Officer and a Spy, by Julie Kalman
Maybe Missed
Mad Women Artists: Séraphine, Camille Claudel 1915, Aloïse, by Mark S. Micale