Reflections April 2022

Fielding as a moralist

On the eighteenth-century English novelist.

Features October 2017

The most of Anthony Burgess

On the literary career of Anthony Burgess.

Books March 1998

Little Kazin & big God

A review of God & the American Writer by Alfred Kazin.

Fiction chronicle December 1992

Literature & revolution

On Leviathan by Paul Auster, The Porcupine by Julian Barnes & other recent novels.

Books June 1992

The dynamics of destruction

A review of Ann Hulbert’s biography of Jean Stafford.

Books March 1992

Our woman in Europe

A review of These Sad But Glorious Days by Margaret Fuller.

Features November 1988

The short happy life of Robert Louis Stevenson

On Robert Louis Stevenson’s life and legacy.

Books September 1983

Semiotics and murder