A Novel Approach to Scandal: Arch Commentary on Taboo Sex

What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal , by Zoë Heller. Henry Holt, 258 pages, $23.

Who is Bathsheba Hart? The concise answer is delivered at the very beginning of Zoë Heller’s highly addictive second novel: “She is the forty-two-year-old pottery teacher recently charged with indecent assault on a minor after being discovered having Read More