Originally published in Griffith Review edition 89, August 2025 * I have never read anything written by Pearl S. Buck. But a few years ago, I came across something she once said that I have been unable to forget. In a 1958 interview on the American TV show The Mike Wallace Interview, the eponymous Wallace (pausing every now and then to plug Parliament-brand cigarettes) interrogates Buck about her views on women and the home: Wallace: Earlier thi…
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