Laurent de Brunhoff is very hard of hearing, and much more tentative with the English language than a man who’s lived in America for 32 years ought to be. He is taciturn, too, seldom uttering more ...

The dowager ambles toward an early supper, leaving footprints as round as moons. She is a saggy-skinned and cloudy-eyed old girl, born before India was independent, a subject of the British Raj. They ...