A.S. Byatt

A. S. Byatt

A. S. Byatt's book of essays On Histories and Stories will be published in the US next year. Her new novel, The Biographer's Tale, will be published here in January. (November 2000)

From the Review

December 21, 2000: Misunderstanding (letter)

November 30, 2000: Justice for Willa Cather

Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Acocella

February 15, 1996: The Case of Wei Jingsheng (letter)

From New York Review Books

The Quest for Corvo The Quest for Corvo is a hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of the strange Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo, an artist, writer, and frustrated aspirant to the priesthood with a bottomless talent for self-destruction.