On a fateful Saturday morning, Marge Selbee walked into the kitchen to fire up a pot of coffee. Her husband, Jerry, was drawing on a notepad. Numbers and formulas danced across his page like a stiff-armed ballerina. This wasn’t unusual for him. Sipping on coffee, Marge turned to him, “What…

Evelyn Waugh would have a field day with what’s happening in Ethiopia right now. The talented author of Brideshead Revisited and Scoop was a racist little creep sent out by a rightwing, pro-Fascist newspaper in 1935 to cover Mussolini’s invasion. …