Herman Melville

Trust is a strange thing.  I started Melville’s The Confidence-Man expecting a novel.  I discovered something else.  What?  I am not sure what it was.  There is a story here, if you define story loosely, very loosely.  On a Mississippi riverboat, there are a lot of conversations.  The whole book is conversations.  There is presumably—it is never stated explicitly—one person—presumably the titular character—again, it is never stated—who … [Read more...] about The Oddity of Trust