But the pace with which they accede to such reforms is out of kilter with the markets.

And so this was the final operation, which was to take these blocks as they were all pushed off kilter, and to hold onto them with a skin.

Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown ups. She is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off kilter in person as she is on paper.