Books From a Parallel Time Stream
by John WilsonIt was almost as if the McHenry books existed in a parallel time stream and had somehow leaked into our own. Continue Reading »
In For the Long Haul
by John WilsonA reader has a special relationship with a living writer whose books he or she has been reading as they appeared over the years. Continue Reading »
Mary McCarthy’s Clarity
by Richard T. WhittingtonMary McCarthy's caustic wit and command of language elevated her nonfiction to the first rank. Continue Reading »
Oscar Wilde on Sentimentality, or Why I Still Dislike Mumford
by Matthew SchmitzFrom De Profundis: A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. We think we can have our emotions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing emotions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine. . . . . Continue Reading »
Extended Conversation
by J. A. GrayArtistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior by brooke allen ivan r. dee, 244 pages, $26 I’ll write because I’ll give You, critics, means to live; For should I not supply The cause, th’effect would die. Robert Herrick’s quatrain is a reminder which critics do well to . . . . Continue Reading »
The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene
by Robert RoyalGraham Greene was a great novelist of a special kind. Unlike many literary practitioners in this century, he did not experiment with language, subvert traditional narrative, or choose exotic subjects. He simply used the powerful imagination that led him to speak of his work as a “guided dream.” . . . . Continue Reading »
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