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
“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.
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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 »
A Subtle Play of Relations Reveals Henry James in Full
The Master , by Colm Tóibín. Scribner, 352 pages, $25.
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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 »
Let's Talk About Mi: Asian Fusion From a Master
How fast should you eat your food? 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
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Stumbling on the Real Thing: Accidental Gen-X Wisdom
My Misspent Youth , by Meghan Daum. Open City Press, 177 pages, $14.
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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 »
A Keen and Precise Sequel From a Most Lawyerly Novelist
Alfred A. Schmidt Delivered , by Louis Begley. 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 »
Examining the Radiant Center, Louis Auchincloss' Ruling Class
Her Infinite Variety , by Louis Auchincloss. 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 »
In the Personal Library of Vladimir Nabokov Are Clues to the Esoteric Obsessions of the Supreme Esthete.
Needless to say, I pounced on the Pale Fire s first. 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 »









