I’d enjoyed Caroline Moorehead’s biography of Martha Gellhorn, but this book fell short, primarily because of the excessively detailed...

Elizabeth Hardwick’s essays are filled with quiet insights, so quiet that I found I had to read them in the mornings, when my mind was...

I loved this book and took my time with it. Steadily working through the exercises, I used them to think about books I’ve read, to...

There aren’t many likeable characters in Memento Mori . I counted three. But death comes for the likeable, the despicable and everyone in...

Benjamin Taylor’s brief biography of Willa Cather serves as a useful companion piece to Cather’s novels and letters. Taylor offers...

This collection was my introduction to Alice Munro's work and it taught me that the true pleasure in reading short stories is to take...

“The position of unmarried women—unless, of course, she is somebody’s mistress, is of no interest whatsoever to the reader of modern...

Penelope Fitzgerald writes such quietly brutal books. Florence Green with her naivete and kindness says toward the end of The Bookshop,...