A Nice Hobby, Like Knitting: On Barbara Pym
Now recognized as a master for her wry, comic novels of spinsters and clergymen, Barbara Pym was unpublished until the very end of her life....
Now recognized as a master for her wry, comic novels of spinsters and clergymen, Barbara Pym was unpublished until the very end of her life....
Powell had bad luck, and she received less attention than her male colleagues, but throughout it all, she kept writing....
On Merritt Tierce’s Love Me Back...
The Runaways: punk icons, feminist icons, hard-rock icons....
On Mailer, Eggers, and the protagonists that walk off the page....
CATT DUNLOP, the heroine of Chris Kraus’s novel Summer of Hate, is a 44-year old cultural art critic with a small devoted following of “Asperger’s boys, girls who’d been hospitalized for mental illness, assistant ...
Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author?...