Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Doris Lessing’s rebellion against middle-class values began in her early youth. Born Doris May Tayler in 1919 in ...

We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women who have had years of education, to know nothing about ...

Doris Lessing, bless her, tells stories about people rather than art, about experiences rather than boredom, about significant moments in a life, odd adjustments made, unexpected corners turned ...