My Cave Paintings

If I were a paleolithic painter, here's how I'd decorate the walls of my man cave.

A couple of weeks ago, The New Yorker published excerpts from the 8,000 pages of diaries written by Patricia Highsmith, who in addition to being a journal-ist, was a novelist. She was in her twenties when she was writing these anguished entries, trying to sort out her sexual preference, whether or not to keep on writing comics for a living or just bang …