A particularly à propos review: ROSE MACAULAY, They Went to Portugal (1946)

I owe all of you lovely readers (if, indeed, there are any of you who haven't written me off forever by now) a sincere apology for vanishing for far longer than I had ever intended. I do apologize, and I feel terrible if any of you were fretting about us. It has been an extraordinarily eventful year—exciting and wonderful, but also logistically intense and requiring a fair amount of mental…