online archive
3:00PM
OCT 22 2007
Literary lives
One-Soon Her (NCU): Ten Characters in Search of a Group: A Sketch of Bloomsbury. From Policy Review, a very rising man: Henrik Bering on Samuel Pepys and his world. Disease is also one's material: A review of Graham Greene: a Life in Letters. A review of Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s and Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s. A review of Betjeman: A Life by A.N. Wilson. Poe’s mysterious death: Matthew Pearl had wanted to write a novel exploring the mystery. But he never expected to uncover actual evidence that could help solve it. Whatever Wilde's talents were, originality was not one of them: A review of Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture. A review of Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution by Pascale Casanova. The man who invented the blockbuster: Harold Robbins’s racy bestsellers sold sex and glamour to the mass market – and his life was as lurid as his novels. Saul Bellow was filet mignon, Malamud was hamburger: A review of Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life by Philip Davis. A review of D.H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider by John Worthen. From TLS, a review of Shakespeare Revealed by Rene Weis. Woe is Wodehouse and his biography: An article on Robert McCrum and what’s wrong with literary biographies.
