Peter Brooks

Peter Brooks is the author of Henry James Goes to Paris, Realist Vision, Troubling Confessions, Reading for the Plot, The Melodramatic Imagination, and a number of other books, including the historical novel World Elsewhere. He taught for many years at Yale, where he was Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature, and currently is Andrew W. Mellon Scholar at Princeton.

From the Review

November 19, 2009: Napoleon's Eye

Dominique-Vivant Denon: L'oeil de Napoléon an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, October 20, 1999–January 17, 2000

No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon, translated from the French by Lydia Davis, and with an introduction by Peter Brooks

Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Andrew McClellan

January 25, 1973: Ford's Better Idea (letter)

November 7, 1968: Community of Scholars? (letter)

From New York Review Books

No Tomorrow "I was desperately in love with the comtesse de —. I was twenty years old and I was naive. She deceived me, I got angry, she left me. I was naive, I missed her. I was twenty years old." So begins this seductive tale of seduction and the endless ambiguities of desire.