Yesterday’s appointing of DOJ’s Special Counsel Jack Smith, by Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee both the Jan 6th and the Mar-a-Lago classified documents criminal investigations, brings to mind Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies A Novel. While Jack Smith has left The Hague where he was prosecutor for the Special Court, the narrator of this novel has headed to The Hague to become an interpreter for the International Criminal Court, a job she applied for on a whim. When I came upon the book this past summer I was intrigued by her profession so unfamiliar to me and was hooked from the beginning. This book also made it to former President Barack