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What do you feel when you look at something beautiful? Take this honeysuckle pattern, copied from a Greek vase. As your eyes trace its symmetrical curves, can you feel your “two lungs draw in a long breath”? Do those inhalations give you a “sense of expansion,” or a “vague feeling of harmony”? How about your […]
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The English poet John Keats died in 1821, and almost immediately his friend Joseph Severn began working on the portrait of Keats that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Severn painted from memory, capturing Keats sitting among his books – one of which he is reading – in his home at Hampstead Heath. […]
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What does it mean to write a novel of ideas? These are works of fiction that foreground debate and disputation-like the discussions of Zionism in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, the politico-religious arguments in G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, the utopian speculations of H.G. Wells’s A Modern Utopia, the debates about Communism in Doris […]
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Starting in 2015, in the wake of the shooting of ten members of the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC by white supremacist Dylann Roof, a movement grew to dismantle the icons of the Confederacy throughout the South. Shortly after the shooting, Bree Newsome climbed up a flagpole on the grounds of the South Carolina […]
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‘Read as one of the masterpieces by a person not acquainted with our literature, it might easily give an impression that this literature is not immense’. Henry James’s words in his introduction to a 1900 edition of Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield are a far cry from the unrestrained enthusiasm publishers expect from editors […]
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Volume 6 of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, spanning June 1934 through June 1936, includes 366 items of correspondence, directed to 116 recipients. In our introductions to the volume, we note that Hemingway’s enthusiasm for the growing sport of deep-sea fishing is a dominant theme of his letters of this period. Accordingly, in the photos […]
Read MoreJohn Cleland, best remembered as the author of the erotic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-49), was a tricksy and entertaining correspondent. His letters, just published by Cambridge University Press, reveal his attempts to insinuate himself with the rich and powerful at the same time as he teased them for what he perceived to be […]
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Not long after we submitted this book for production, Zadie Smith’s new novel, The Fraud, was published. It was something of a surprise, largely a welcome one, that it seemed to have so many references in common with the book we had just finished. The Fraud is Smith’s first historical novel. She focuses on a […]
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