Richard Pollak

Richard Pollak is a co-founder and the former editor of MORE magazine, and has served as literary editor and executive editor of The Nation, of which he is now a contributing editor. His most recent books are The Colombo Bay, an account of his voyage on a container ship in the weeks after 9/​11, and The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim, which The New York Times called “a startling and thorough account of a life of lies.” He is finishing a memoir, tentatively entitled Vacant Garments. To read an excerpt, click on that title above.