Renata Adler has had an unrivaled career as a reporter, novelist, and short story writer; intellectual gadfly; and "New Yorker" staffer. Educated at Bryn Mawr, Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Yale Law School, she has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, a Woodrow Wilson Scholar, and the film critic of "The New York Times." The author of prize-winning short stories, a prize-winning novel "(Speedboat), " a number of other highly praised books, and countless admired and controversial articles for "The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, National Review, New Republ...