The Wanderer Jan Morris wrote that her constant travels were ‘an outer expression of my inner journey,’ ‘fired by patriotism, inhibited by upbringing, inexhaustibly in love.’ Thinking Again by Jan Morris February 25, 2021 issue
An Undisappearing Act Diane Johnson’s restitutionary biography brings George Meredith’s first wife out of his shadow. The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith: And Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson, with an introduction by Vivian Gornick December 3, 2020 issue
Sympathy for the Devil There is a profound issue of freedom at the core of Marilynne Robinson’s novels. Can we change our lives? Jack by Marilynne Robinson October 22, 2020 issue
A Poet Unlike Any Other Often described as dotty, batty, silly, or odd, Stevie Smith can be celebrated as a major English poet of the 20th century All the Poems by Stevie Smith, edited and with an introduction by Will May June 9, 2016 issue
Alice Munro’s Magic Her characters often have to decide what “home” means, and what to do with it when you have left it Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995–2014 by Alice Munro February 5, 2015 issue
The Charms of John Updike He gave “the mundane its beautiful due” Updike by Adam Begley The Collected Stories: Collected Early Stories, Collected Later Stories by John Updike, edited by Christopher Carduff May 8, 2014 issue
Willa Cather: A Hidden Voice On ‘The Selected Letters’ The Selected Letters of Willa Cather edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout July 11, 2013 issue
Finding a Very Secret Self New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Tóibín The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín January 10, 2013 issue
The Terrors of the Woman President Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Mudwoman’ Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates April 5, 2012 issue
Storms Over the Novel 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 See all reviewed works See less May 10, 2007 issue
Passionate Pilgrim The Cruise of the Vanadis by Edith Wharton, with photographs by Jonas Dovydenas November 4, 2004 issue
Comic, Sad and Indefinite Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women by Rosemary Dinnage August 12, 2004 issue
The Unknown Edith Wharton 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 October 4, 2001 issue
