Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral
insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art
affected relationships among the Partisan Review
writers: Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv, Robert
Lowell, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt,
Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Diana Trilling. It is the
women who steal the show with their their groundbreaking
work, their harrowing experiences of marriage, abuse, and
betrayal, their passion for writing and disdain for
feminism, their struggles and achievements.