Gandhi, Transformed
After weeks of controversy over his new book, Joseph Lelyveld joked that he may be the victim of mistaken identity.
“I am not the Joseph Lelvyeld who wrote a book about the secret sex life of Gandhi,” he said, referring to reviewers who have said his book, Great Soul, reveals the Mahatma as a bisexual. His lecture about what the book does say sold out the Billy Wilder Auditorium at the Hammer Museum.
In fact, said Lelyveld, the former executive editor of The New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, though …