As Donnie Graham and Pinch Sulzberger congratulate themselves for thdir decision to accommodate a murderer, here are two great novels they mi ght consider reading if they actually want to understand the mind of a psychotic revolutionary:
The Princess Cassamassima, by Henry James. Young Hyacinth Robinson falls in with Victorian anarcho-syndicalists and discovers the totalitarian mind 75 years before Hannah Arendt coined the term “totalitarian.”
The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad. A terrorist in London succeeds only in killing the retarded brother of his foolish wife.
