The Maltese Question

Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 6, 2018 Are we tied implacably to our personalities or are we free to reinvent ourselves? That’s a question scientists, philosophers and even novelists have long explored. One take on this question comes from an unlikely source, the 1929 noir masterpiece “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett. Film buffs remember Hammett’s gumshoe […]