As novelist Prose notes in her perceptive introduction, Woolf demonstrates a huge affection for her hometown—like her heroine Clarissa Dalloway, whose stream-of ...
Classic novels often explain power better than modern leadership manuals. By looking closely at Austen, Dickens, and Woolf, ...
BEGINNING AGAIN by Leonard Woolf. 263 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World. $4.95. On a Swedish holiday in 1911, Leonard Woolf was confronted on a remote beach by a naked Swede, who asked, “Can you divorce ...
In 1918, Virginia Woolf saw something special in Cézanne’s “Still Life with Apples” (1877-1878). Despite its small scale and muted hues, the modest canvas unlocked something in Woolf, who responded ...
Our critic A.O. Scott takes apart a scene from “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s 1925 masterpiece, and shows why the book is a must-read now. By A.O. Scott In June, the Book Review Book Club will read ...
Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads is a somber, bittersweet tale of the singer/songwriter, and the harrowing tragedy of ...
Virginia Woolf in 1902. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. I’m not sure what I was expecting when I cracked open Virginia Woolf’s The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories, but it certainly wasn’t a giantess ...
In the introduction to “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway,” Merve Emre describes Virginia Woolf as the hostess of her 1925 modernist classic: flitting from room to room, introducing us to each of her ...
When Professor of English Language and Literature Michael Thurston wanted students in his course on the English literary tradition to understand the context in which Virginia Woolf wrote To The ...
A remarkable literary discovery has thrilled readers of the late, great British writer Virginia Woolf. More than 80 years after her death, a new book has been published this week. It's a collection of ...
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