Topic: Henry James

Pick of the paperbacks

THE MAGNIFICENT MRS TENNANT by David Waller Yale University Press, £14.99 GERTRUDE Tennant was an extraordinary Victorian hostess. Her salon was a...

The Business Case for Reading Novels

I've been a devoted, even fanatical reader of fiction my whole life, but sometimes I feel like I'm wasting time if I spend an evening immersed in...
A man convicted of raping a woman in 1981 was cleared by DNA testing last month and freed from a Louisiana prison last week after spending the last...
A Man of Parts By David Lodge Harvill Secker 565 pp., $34.95. . Reviewed by Mike Doherty. . The first epigraph to David Lodge's new book is a...

Do you have a legal philosophy?

More ideas from Breyer . I mean Holmes, of course, is a very great judge. Because he saw what I admired in him, and what people do admire in him...
More ideas from Menand . Question: What is the cultural role of a literary critic now?. . Louis Menand: I think in the, for most of the 20th...
The one U.S.-based learning vacation that matches the ones at Oxford and Cambridge in England -- matches them in intellectual profundity, in mental...
Photo by Steve Pyke/Handout. . A sentence or image will often stay with a writer for some time before it finds a proper home, but rarely does it...
Bally, PA, December 24, 2010 -(PR.com)- When high school superstar basketball player Liam Rider is sentenced to military school to serve out an...

'Foreign Bodies,' by Cynthia Ozick

0 View Larger Image Foreign Bodies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 255 pages; $26) . In the roiling pond that is American culture, the enterprise of ...