Hermione Lee is President of Wolfson College, Oxford. She is the author of biographies of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton and of books on Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen, and Philip Roth.
(April 2012)
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The Terrors of the Woman President
April 5, 2012
Mudwoman
by Joyce Carol Oates
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Storms Over the Novel
May 10, 2007
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
by Jane Smiley
The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
by Edward Mendelson
How Novels Work
by John Mullan
How to Read a Novel: A User’s Guide
by John Sutherland
The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography and Culture
edited by Franco Moretti
The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes
edited by Franco Moretti
Nation & Novel: The English Novel from Its Origins to the Present Day
by Patrick Parrinder
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Passionate Pilgrim
November 4, 2004
The Cruise of the Vanadis
by Edith Wharton, with photographs by Jonas Dovydenas
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Comic, Sad and Indefinite
August 12, 2004
Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women
by Rosemary Dinnage
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The Unknown Edith Wharton
October 4, 2001
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1891–1910
selected and with notes by Maureen Howard
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1911–1937
selected and with notes by Maureen Howard
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On Eudora Welty (1909–2001)
September 20, 2001
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Tracking the Untrackable
April 12, 2001
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes
Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding David Ellis
Reflections on Biography Paula R. Backscheider
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Unfinished Women
December 16, 1999
Ellen Glasgow: A Biography
by Susan Goodman