Henry James

Adieu to George Trow: Earnest Engagement, Patriotic Hauteur

Author photos are never on oath, but George W.S. Trow’s make you wonder.  read more »

Adieu to George Trow: Earnest Engagement, Patriotic Hauteur

Author photos are never on oath, but George W.S. Trow’s make you wonder.  read more »

Cynthia Ozick

Barry Blitt

“I have a theory that your true psychological—even, in the deepest sense, metaphysical&m  read more »

Plutocrats in Thatcher's Day-A Loving, Scathing Inventory

The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst. Bloomsbury, 438 pages, $24.95.  read more »

I’ll Vote for Kerry—Despite Revulsion For Bush-Haters

"So here it is at last, the distinguished thing."Henry James was speaking of death, but were he aliv  read more »

Maria Full of Grace Explores The Risky Passage to a New World

Joshua Marston's remarkable feature-film debut Maria Full of Grace , from his own screenplay, is its  read more »

Great Eakins Exhibit Finally Shows Up-With Nude Swimmers!

The great Thomas Eakins exhibition, which was reviewed here when it opened last fall at the Philadel  read more »

Has It Come to This: Smart Isn't Sexy Enough?

In 1976, with a certain trepidation, I went to Iran as part of a female American delegation invited  read more »

John Koch's Best Work Is With Naked Subjects

It is sometimes forgotten that the art of painting lends itself to a great variety of beguiling appe  read more »

Beware A Brand-New Kind of Man

In the rash of trend articles in the wake of Sept. 11, a New Man is being envisaged.  read more »

Henry James' Americans Shop for Love and Art Abroad

James Ivory's TheGolden Bowl , from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on the novel  read more »

Stumbling on the Real Thing: Accidental Gen-X Wisdom

My Misspent Youth , by Meghan Daum. Open City Press, 177 pages, $14.  read more »

The Way We're Rich Now: Microsoft and Manolo Blahniks

The New Gilded Age: 'The New Yorker' Looks at the Culture of Affluence. Edited by David Remnick.  read more »

Beyond the Portraits-The Watercolor Sargent

It is one of the curiosities of art history that John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was once thought to  read more »

A Pair of Paltrows … Danner's Dream

Theater 1: Pair of Paltrows Gwyneth Paltrow is a game and gorgeous commodity who has thus far peddle  read more »

The Wings of the Dove : A Penetrating Adaptation Of a James Love Triangle; Gattaca Made Me Feel In-Valid

Ian Softley's The Wings of the Dove , from the screenplay by Hossein Amini, based on the novel by He  read more »

James' Tenacious Heiress Enjoys a Quiet Triumph

Agnieszka Holland's Washington Square , from a screenplay by Carol Doyle, based on the novel by Henr  read more »