The book is now a palimpsest, a manuscript with a layer of text written over an earlier scraped- or washed-off text (see What is a Palimpsest?). For centuries the monk's prayer book is used in ...

King reviews Gore Vidal’s Palimpsest: A Memoir. It is reprinted now to mark her recent passing. Giving one’s memoirs a title that has to be explained must be a status symbol among the leftist ...