Category: Book Review

On Edginess

Pinker and Johnson on Human Nature

Feasting and Fasting

Two Mothers, Two Memoirs

Literature As Resistance

Voices in Fiction

Irascible Man

Lost Road

Thick on Severn snow the leaves: Housman’s Letters

The Long and the Short of Robinson

The Art of What Remains

How Dosty Did It

Another Wharton

If Lucky Jim Could See Him Now

Jim Crace’s Violent Verities

The Multi-Tasking Marquise

Hardy Biographed

Eudora Welty and Racism

What to Know, How to Know It, and How to Use It

Poetry Chronicle

George Sand: A Life as Theater

Apocalypse Now

Read Any Good Books Lately?

Praying and Bird-Watching: The Life of R.S. Thomas

Fiction Chronicle

Short but Seldom Sweet

Rights and Lefts

A Secondary Epic: Robert Fagles’ Aeneid

In the Shadow of the Gulag: Tony Judt’s Europe

A Cool Head and a Hard Heart: Irène Némirovsky’s Fiction

Spin-Soothing Tales

Sensibility and Sense

Masculine Poetics: Works, Days, Cars

Justice to Edmund Wilson

Good Company: Six Voices

Possibilities for Wordsworth

The Lost Romantic

The Captive Soul: Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate

Ah, England

The Perfect Critic

Civilized Pleasures

Theory’s Umpires

Daniel Dennett and the Brick Wall of Consciousness

A Clear Conscience and a Good Night’s Sleep

The Inner Drama of James Wright

Histories and Mysteries

Some Refridgerator Talk About Alfred Hitchcock

Textual Pleasures and Pet Peeves

Betjeman’s Way

Reinventing the Greeks