`The Horror.'

The article presents information on the book "The Gates of Ivory," by Margaret Drabble. The "Gates of Ivory" is about the attempt to comprehend bad time from within the comforts and complacencies of good time. Besides questioning the morality of art, Drabble questions the truth of art, approaching these age-old issues from new angles. The book is also about the difficulty of distinguishing "true" from "false" representations of experience. It's a novel of ideas at a time when most fiction seems deliberately lobotomized, it's major in an age of minimalism.