| 单词 | Henry James |
| 例句 | He knew she read incessantly—Shakespeare, Henry James, Dickens, Thomas Hardy—but he did not think this could fill her days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Early American writers, Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne, complained bitterly about the bleakness and flatness of the American scene. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Oft cited on this subject of attention is William James, a philosopher and physician at the end of the nineteenth century, and the brother of novelist Henry James. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He imagined Henry James as a movie critic and composed odes to the photographer Nadar’s portraits of Victor Hugo and Sarah Bernhardt. Richard Howard, acclaimed poet-translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z And in “Last Entry, March 1944,” she perhaps arrives at an answer to her initial question: “I mark Henry James’s sentence: Observe perpetually.” How an Opera Can Fit in a Mailbox 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z This happens to be another conversation in which Henry James has a key part to play. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Lowell’s depiction carries a perfumed whiff of the Edwardian era, reminiscent of Henry James and Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence.” Why Robert Lowell, Famed as a Poet, Should Be Remembered for His Prose 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Queasy over a meal he called a “mess of bouillabaisse,” Henry James said that it was “a formidable dish, demanding a French digestion.” Personal Journeys: In West Africa, a Dollar and a Meal 2013-05-06T21:58:34Z Machado's shrewd, even devious work with the point of view of his narrators positions him alongside Henry James. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z “The Innocents” is, as it should be, mighty disturbing — both in a shocking, horror-movie way and in that queasily ambiguous Henry James way. Translating Henry James for the Screen 2013-04-28T03:43:13Z She admires Henry James, and especially "The Golden Bowl" ; when she mentions this book her face lights up with pleasure. An interview with Iris Murdoch: from the Guardian archive, 1 February 1960 2013-02-01T07:30:00Z From Henry James he took what he calls the "third person intimate" style, used to such triumphant effect in Brooklyn, in which "every single thing is known, seen, remembered and felt by a person". A life in books: Colm T?ib?n 2010-10-25T07:00:00Z It helps that there are affinities between author and subject – a lower-middle-class south London childhood, for instance – that were absent from Lodge's earlier novel about Henry James. A Man of Parts by David Lodge ? review 2011-04-10T02:30:01Z Still, as a child’s apprehension of the adult world, the movie seems closer to Henry James’s “What Maisie Knew.” ‘Chocolat’: What France Knew 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “The elegance, for one thing; nobility, for another; extreme attention to people and relationships and the slow and patient way that Jim has, and that Henry James has.” Film: James Ivory Rebuilds After the Loss of Ismail Merchant 2010-04-09T03:54:00Z I also love Henry James and Gustave Flaubert, who wrote the first feminist novel in “Madame Bovary.” Kim Gordon: By the Book 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In a letter to Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, “I recognise myself, compared with you, to be a lout and slouch of the first water.” Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z Lahiri is not the first American writer to live and write in Rome: Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Ellison and Margaret Fuller were all expatriates there for a time. Writing in Italian, Jhumpa Lahiri Found a New Voice 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z In those early years of the 20th century, Victorians such as Thomas Hardy, HG Wells, Henry James and Arthur Conan Doyle still dominated. Modernism's first wave: turn-of-the-century literature 2013-01-17T11:44:48Z The city Henry James called his “repository of consolations” had been compressed to shareable size: an aquatic utopia, to be beheld on a touch-screen, as the virus scythed its way toward us. At Venice Biennale, Contemporary Art Sinks or Swims 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Nick has left Oxford and moved to London to begin his PhD on Henry James. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-07-22T21:55:09Z This is Henry James and Edith Wharton territory, and Fellowes doesn’t shy away from comparisons. ‘The Gilded Age’ Review: Dime-Store ‘Downton’ 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z “There, he’s ended up in Henry James’s and George Eliot’s novels, and become part of the culture,” she said. The Frick Acquires Its First Renaissance Portrait of a Woman 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z One of the characters is reading a novel by Henry James; another keeps a copy of Sinclair Lewis with him. Television: On the Boardwalk, HBO Hangs Out With a New Mob 2010-09-03T19:34:00Z Henry James asked, in a 1921 essay about very long novels. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z I came to Henry James with huge expectations but found I could not digest his orotundities and much prefer his contemporary Edith Wharton. Anne de Courcy: By the Book 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z As a critic, I aim to be — in Henry James’s phrase — “someone on whom nothing is lost” and yet I never end any review without wondering if I might be wrong. Review | What ‘Henry Huggins’ and ‘Lolita’ can teach us about extremism — and civil discourse 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Lonoff’s house a quotation from Henry James that is pinned to a bulletin board in the great man’s study. Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z An elliptical response such as “With pleasure” is so standard that it has been used by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, E.M. Memo to schoolmarms: It’s OK to use incomplete sentences 2013-04-18T17:09:00Z Is it open season on Henry James’s baggy monster? Review: ‘White Teeth,’ by Zadie Smith 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In “The Daily Henry James,” relations begin nowhere: the fragments have no connection to one another, and don’t add up to any meaningful narrative. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Chastain, who earned an Oscar nomination for her role in "The Help," will be making her Broadway debut this fall in "The Heiress," a play based on the Henry James novel "Washington Square." Jessica Chastain to help hand out Tony Awards 2012-06-01T14:48:08Z Wells affected not to recognize Henry James, rather unkindly asking who the hippopotamus was.” ‘Downton Abbey’-esque novels offer romance, fashion and foie gras 2013-02-07T21:54:37Z For Forster, or Henry James, or Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Italian romantic novel was a shunning of the 19th and early 20th century's twin specialties—social repression and smoggy industrialization. Movies: Italy Porn (For Ladies Only) 2010-06-05T01:57:00Z What it comes down to, for her — and for Henry James and the Victorians, and even Felix — is some inherent, transformative value in aesthetic experience. ‘It Was Like I’d Never Done It Before’: How Sally Rooney Wrote Again 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Based on the Henry James book "The Turn of the Screw." TV Picks: CBS' 'How I Met Your Mother' 2011-10-31T14:31:04Z In the novels and stories of Henry James, private wealth played the same role. This Week in Fiction: Ian McEwan on Literary Crimes 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z May our perpetual writing machine drill down on to the page until, as with Henry James, they have to wrestle the pen from his dying hand. My hero: Philip Roth by James Wood 2013-03-22T16:00:06Z Like his friend Henry James, he depicted the upper crust, although his canvases were of a more flattering kind than his patron's novels. This week's new art exhibitions 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z The work also has a new title: “The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master.” The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Was Roth, who had begun under the wing of Henry James, unconsciously invoking James’s elegy for his own life? Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z His magic, though, is in his gifts, which can resemble Henry James’s, as a social novelist. In Alan Hollinghurst’s Latest, a Hazy Sex Scandal Looms Over Many Lives 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z In Europe, his elegant, ruminative style — often compared to Proust or Henry James — has led to a towering literary reputation. Javier Marias Finds Popularity on the Rise in Britain and the U.S. 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z There are likenesses of Orlando, from Virginia Woolf’s novel of that name, and Isabel Archer, the Henry James character. A genteel brush with Victorian themes Traveling south from France, the 19th-century author Henry James once called it “rather perhaps the last of the prose capitals than the first of the poetic.” New Venues Put Milan on the Contemporary Art Map 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Vanhoenacker, on the other hand, can put one in mind of Henry James. Review: Mark Vanhoenacker’s ‘Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot’ on Joy of Flight 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z In some ways, the spookiest element in author Henry James’ 1898 horror novella “The Turn of the Screw” is an unexplained letter of expulsion from a boarding school. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z We get little sense of Kipling’s actual presence; why did he strike Henry James as “the most complete man of genius” James had known? Taking Another Look at the Author of ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z And just try to count bars in the Polonaise-Fantaisie: It’s like trying to graph a sentence in late Henry James. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z It is both transparent and opaque – a perfect mirror to reflect the creepy contradictions in Henry James's late-Victorian ghost story. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z Henry James is my idea of the perfect friend. Sylvia Nasar: By the Book 2012-08-10T14:14:08Z But there are exuberant economies in writing too, as Davis says of Henry James and Marcel Proust, whose books seem baggy only if you’re not concentrating. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z With the exception of Henry James, most nineteenth-century novelists—be they Balzac, Dickens or Dostoyevsky—have disdained their wealthy characters, tending to burden them with equal parts animal cunning and moral laxity. The Rich in Fiction 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z In the end, the Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and Henry James novels got the heave-ho. Your Book Editor Just Snagged Your Spot on the Best-Seller List 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The novel of seduction — in the vein of “The Scarlet Letter” and “Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” of Dreiser, Zola and Henry James — was dead. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z FR Leavis did, when he enrolled Lawrence in the "great tradition" of the English novel, comprising Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z Set in London, Lurie’s novel was consciously based on old-fashioned narratives of manners and customs, with one character imagining himself trapped in a Henry James story. Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Grant’s many strengths as a writer include his seemingly total recall of complex military engagements, the avoidance of bluster and self- glorification and, not least, what Henry James called the “hard limpidity” of his style. Review | Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The American Academy of Arts and Letters -- an organization whose founding members include Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson -- announced its 2015 award recipients in art on Thursday. American Academy of Arts and Letters announces 2015 art awards 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Hemingway tears through the history of American literature and leaves only three survivors—Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z In 2004, while waiting for my novel about Henry James, Author, Author, to come out, I occupied myself by writing the introduction to a Penguin Classics edition of HG Wells's novel Kipps. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z How do you see the interplay between Life and Literature, especially in relation to Henry James’ idea of “the madness of art”? Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Henry James apparently traveled from spa to spa in search of relief from what Theroux describes as “an almost constant state of constipation.” Paul Theroux?s Travel Miscellany 2011-06-03T16:52:27Z When Chastain appeared on Broadway in “The Heiress,” an adaptation of the Henry James novella “Washington Square,” the expectations felt crushing. Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z It hard to imagine, oh, Henry James writing such a paragraph. Colm Toibin's new novel may not be a beauty, but greatness abounds 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z There is no way to recreate Henry James, not in full, without possessing his actual brain, so as to have at every moment his exact thoughts and reflections. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Isn’t it time to start thinking of Roth and Updike and Miller and Bukowski as period writers, like Henry James? “Wiggly meats”: Feminism, “transgressive sex” and the fiction of Matthew Klam 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Consider Henry James, who went bald in all directions during his late years. All Hail the Achievement Beard! 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Not since Henry James assaulted H. G. Wells have we witnessed such prolonged antagonism against a genre of fiction. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z “I thought Jim had quite a lot in common with Henry James,” she said. Film: James Ivory Rebuilds After the Loss of Ismail Merchant 2010-04-09T03:54:00Z You could say precisely the same about Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Henry James. A life in writing: Jack Higgins 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z As for Turgenev: He could count Tolstoy, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and Henry James — not your usual fanboys — among the most fervent admirers of his urbane and melancholy fiction. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Perfect, however, “Infinite Jest” is not: this 1,079-page novel is a “loose baggy monster,” to use Henry James’s words, a vast, encyclopedic compendium of whatever seems to have crossed Mr. Wallace’s mind. 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z There was certainly no hatred in Brooklyn, where the emphasis was squarely on sisterly celebration of the woman whom Henry James backhandedly called “everybody’s dear, Jane.” Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z They were all in Paris at about the same time and could perhaps enjoy a good gossip, although I fear that Henry James would dominate the conversation. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z This novel picks up where Henry James’s “The Portrait of a Lady” left off, following Isabel Archer’s return to Italy and an uncertain fate. New in Paperback: ‘An American Family,’ ‘Red Clocks’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z “Writers leave your work alone! Henry James showed you what happens!” Margaret Atwood Will Write a Sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z And some dialogue wouldn't quite compare with Henry James, but the old bore James couldn't plot and Mercurio certainly can. Rewind TV: Veep; Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life; Line of Duty; Richard II; Walking and Talking – review 2012-06-30T23:05:43Z Now Henry James’s taut 1898 novella is getting a fresh musical ride as a handful of Signature Theatre vets premiere their work at Creative Cauldron, a comfortable black box on a Falls Church side street. Adapting to the times: Mexican lovers, Irish terrorists and James’s ghosts 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z I think of Henry James’s advice: “Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.” Priya Ramrakha’s Brief, Heroic Life as a Conflict Photographer, in Africa and Beyond 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Hunt, whose previous novel, “Kind One,” was a finalist for last year’s PEN/Faulkner Award, avoids what Henry James called the “fatal cheapness” of historical fiction. In Hunt’s ‘Neverhome,’ natural poetry from a young wife who fights for the Union We find Henry James a reliable way to order your mind when everything becomes too much – the literary equivalent of Beethoven or Bach. Fiction prescription: why libraries make you happy 2013-02-08T18:36:01Z I suspect she thought that the only way she was going to get me to fall in love with Henry James was if his were the sole English-language books in my possession. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 5: Our Mutual Friend 2012-02-01T19:54:28Z In “The Middle Years,” the Henry James story on that topic, he answered it for all time. Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z She captured her second Oscar the next year with “The Heiress,” directed by William Wyler and adapted by Ruth and Augustus Goetz from their Broadway play based on Henry James’s “Washington Square.” Olivia de Havilland, a Star of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Matthews said he was originally inspired to write to fulfill Henry James’s dictum “lust to know.” Harry Mathews, Idiosyncratic Writer, Dies at 86 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z TS Eliot declared: "In fact, it seems to me the first step American fiction has taken since Henry James." Why Gatsby is so great 2012-06-09T23:05:21Z If Henry James had written about 9/11, he might have produced something like this thoughtful book. Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z The occasion is risen to, sort of, by an exhibition called “Henry James: A Commemoration,” which is in the Houghton Library at Harvard. The Late Late Phase 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z "Silence," the book's opener, takes its inspiration from an entry in Henry James' notebooks about an anecdote James heard from Lady Gregory, the Irish dramatist and folklorist. In 'The Empty Family,' Colm T?ib?n's penetrating eye sees all: straight, gay, past, present 2011-01-12T22:50:04Z She also had an extensive and critically acclaimed stage career, which included roles in The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs and Henry James's play Appearances, and continued to act late into her life. Susannah York, the gentle star of 1960s cinema, dies after battle against cancer 2011-01-16T00:50:23Z A second Oscar came three years later for “The Heiress,” in which she portrayed a plain young homebody opposite Montgomery Clift and Sir Ralph Richardson in an adaptation of Henry James’ “Washington Square.” Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z It’s like an old tale by Saki or Henry James read for the first time: hair-raising and clever, a tour de force of sensation and a triumph of craft. Review: ‘A Ghost Story’ Has a Sensitive Specter With Time on His Hands 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z But not for me, for whom that missing treatment and its gender change were like the scraps of social gossip Henry James used to carry away from dinner parties to feed his fictions with. Solving the Many Mysteries of What Became ‘Carol’ 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Others hung out on tattered sofas, flipping through the works of Henry James. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Jonathan Dee’s “The Locals” is a large, lumbering novel, set in the southern Berkshires, that strives for a bit of what Henry James called “the big Balzac authority.” Boom, Bust and a Berkshires Interloper in ‘The Locals’ 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z If, as Henry James put it, a writer is someone “on whom nothing is lost,” one might presume to add, in Woolf’s name, that a writer is also someone on whom no one is lost. Michael Cunningham on Virginia Woolf’s Literary Revolution 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Smith gives one of her blue-chip “aunt” performances in this excellent, underrated and under-remembered Henry James adaptation, directed by Agnieszka Holland. Maggie Smith's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z As a critic and author, Mr. Bayley was acclaimed for his dissections of Goethe and Pushkin as well as of Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Chief on my list for the last few years has been Henry James. Sally Rooney on Being Seen by Others 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Henry James, an avowed fan of Flaubert, nevertheless called Frederic “an abject human specimen” and wrote that the reader is bound to ask: “Why, why him?” ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z In the recent novel“Mrs. Osmond,” his sequel to “The Portrait of a Lady,” he extends the past as he picks up Isabel Archer’s story where Henry James thought he’d ended it. An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s moving to see such a keen and generous brain focus on writers like Henry James, Katherine Anne Porter, Mary McCarthy and Robert Frost. In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z “Why on earth do people find it so weird that I write about England? It worked well enough for Henry James.” What’s the Connection Between John Steinbeck and Elizabeth George? 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Among the more notable characters is the young Henry James. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The opening section — a perfectly constructed novella that would have made Henry James envious — is a cringe-inducing confession of desire and foolishness. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Banville’s sequel to Henry James’s “Portrait of a Lady” follows Isabel Archer back to Rome and the possible end of her marriage. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Henry James's tale now reverberates as an account of child abuse. Feast; In the Beginning Was the End; The Turn of the Screw – review 2013-02-10T00:05:37Z Henry James captured “felt life” in exquisite prose. ‘Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel,’ by William Wellman Jr. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z His stories are carried along, too, by an exceptionally easygoing and seductive narrative voice, what the costive Henry James described as his acolyte’s enviable “flow.” He met Hitler, was mocked by Maugham, but what of Hugh Walpole’s books? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Or Henry James, whose spirited innocents find love and its infinite possibilities of betrayal corrupting, but grow through the process? Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z Henry James saw Bernhardt for the first time playing, as always, in her own language in London in 1880, and predicted extravagant success for her in the United States. Stop treating actors with contempt 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z When asked what construction should be put on his literary "trap for the unwary", Henry James once answered: "The worst possible construction." Turn of the Screw ? review 2011-07-08T17:29:37Z I’d like to keep those four Henry James books to myself. Colm Tóibín loves the new movie version of his ‘Brooklyn’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Henry James dismissed even “War and Peace” as a “loose, baggy monster,” in order to justify the self-conscious formalism of his own books. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z Juliette is hardly an American ingénue out of Henry James, trailing American innocence into an exotic, ancient land. | 'Cairo Time': Patricia Clarkson in Egypt in Ruba Nadda?s Script 2010-08-05T22:15:00Z Frequently alluding to Henry James’s “The Princess Casamassima,” another story of young radicals, Crain subjects his characters to quandaries that test their precariously entwined identities. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Like her idol and master, Henry James, she is forever comparing America with Europe to the latter’s advantage. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z There are hallucinations in which images duplicate or multiply, much like a Warhol print sequence, and hallucinations in which people are haunted — as in a Poe or a Henry James story — by their doppelgängers. Books of The Times: ‘Hallucinations,’ by Oliver Sacks 2012-11-26T22:26:01Z Musical Portrait of a Lady, Newly Tattooed in Tokyo Why didn’t Henry James think of adding some dragon tattoos and poisoned cups of tea? Theater Review: ?Tokio Confidential,? a Musical, at Atlantic Stage 2 2012-02-15T23:19:40Z In his 1909 memoir “Italian Hours,” Henry James admired the rooms, “all pleased by their shape, by a lovely proportion, by a mass of ornamentation on the high concave ceilings.” U.S.-Born Princess Opens Historic Villa to the Public 2010-07-15T17:01:00Z Henry James wrote a particularly eviscerating review of Our Mutual Friend in 1865, which I quote in my piece. Dickens Turns 200 This Year. We Will Blog His Ten Best Books 2012-01-20T14:00:32Z Are all of Henry James’s books as hopelessly bad as “The Spoils of Poynton”? Peeved, Irritated and Annoyed: Early Letters to the Editor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In one of his short stories, Henry James shrewdly cast Leighton as Lord Mellifont, "a public man with no corresponding private life". Leighton House: a private palace of art 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z Q: Why did so many Victorian writers — Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, Henry James — embrace the ghost story? Otto Penzler puts the 'boo'! in 'Big Book of Ghost Stories' 2012-10-19T19:53:04Z As Henry James, a longtime fan, once wrote: “Loti belongs to the precious few who are not afraid of being ridiculous.” | The Curious Case of Pierre Loti 2011-07-12T18:32:08Z Amini, whose skillful translation of Henry James' "The Wings of the Dove" earned him an Oscar nomination in 1998, adapted "Two Faces" as well. 'Two Faces of January' a twisted tale driven by talented trio 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In the end, however, this shocker — contemporaneous with Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw ” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper ” — remains a chillingly ambiguous masterpiece. You’ve probably never heard of F. Anstey, but you know his work 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z For those who want to read Loti in English, here is a collection of his writings entitled “Impressions by Pierre Loti,” with a rich introduction by Henry James, first published in 1898. | The Curious Case of Pierre Loti 2011-07-12T18:32:08Z Robbins then mentioned the phrase “We don’t like Henry James so much we like Herman Melville” from the poem “Personal Poem,” by Frank O’Hara. Running the “Moby-Dick” Marathon 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Cast members read favorite Edith Wharton and Henry James novels in preparation for filming, and they were given lessons on Gilded Age history, etiquette, diction and social customs. ‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Then came a debate, complete with jurors, to determine the superior author: Edith Wharton or Henry James. The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’ 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z A devotee of Henry James, he registers the fluctuations of the character’s inner weather with meteorological precision. Review: Resettling the Meaning of Home in ‘Brooklyn,’ With Saoirse Ronan 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z “It contains no first-rate example of a first-rate genius,” griped an anonymous critic for The Atlantic Monthly — who turns out to have been Henry James. How the Met Was Made 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Henry James said that criticism is the mind reaching out for reasons to understand its own interests. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z In prefatory notes for “Later Life,” Gurney thanks the great American novelist Henry James. Review: They Meet Again in ‘Later Life.’ Will Fireworks Follow? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Like a withholding father in a novel by Henry James, it may not be satisfied with my very best efforts. Holiday Windows, a (Sort of) Love Story 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z As for Henry James, The Golden Bowl has become one of my favorite novels. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 5: Our Mutual Friend 2012-02-01T19:54:28Z Continuing, he said: Thoughts don’t flow like the luxuriant sentences of Henry James. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z She wrote "a better novel", but that too failed to find a publisher, so she did a PhD on Henry James and got taken on by the university as a teacher. Tessa Hadley: A life in writing 2011-02-28T00:04:00Z The decision to use Henry James as a substitute Watson seems odd at first, but in the end works wonderfully well. ‘The Fifth Heart,’ by Dan Simmons 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Henry James was 26 when he crossed the border from Switzerland and made his way, on foot, down into Italy — “warm & living & palpable,” as he wrote ecstatically to his sister on Aug. 31, 1869. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z In the 11 years between his two features Mr. Mendelsohn continued to write screenplays, including a psychological drama and an update of a Henry James story. O Suburbia, With a Touch of the Cosmic 2011-03-05T05:23:05Z Now, unlike Henry James, George Lucas is not short on cash. George Lucas' pathetic 3-D "Star Wars" re-release 2010-09-29T22:01:00Z Henry James -- another point of comparison, now that I think about it -- didn't write stories about the poor and oppressed of the world either. The art of making "vagina movies" 2010-04-29T17:55:00Z In the foreword to “The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis,” published this month, the critic Michael Wood invokes Henry James, Henry Fielding, Chekhov, Sterne, Nabokov and Calvino — all in two paragraphs. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “The Daily Henry James” is barely two hundred pages. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The role of young Miles in Benjamin Britten’s 1954 adaptation of Henry James' spooky novella raises particular challenges. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Concerned about diminishing royalties from his novels, Henry James in his mid-40s began to write plays. The Literati: Henry James’s Final Curtain Call 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z You might detect the shades of Ibsen’s “Ghosts” and Henry James’s spooky Victorian tales or find other echoes and glimmerings to parse with your friends after the movie. Movie Review: ?Keyhole,? Directed by Guy Maddin, With Jason Patric 2012-04-05T22:59:39Z Here, you could argue, is the very justification of the novel itself – the education of our imaginations not by precept but through the inconsequent palpability of art, what Henry James called its "irresponsible plasticity". Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z “See Naples and Die” was the motto in that era, although Henry James’s Daisy Miller didn’t make it past Rome. Favorite Place: Seduced by Naples 2013-12-13T16:02:13Z James Baldwin famously wrote beautiful and thoughtful novels about people from multiple ethnic and racial backgrounds, for example, and Henry James was renowned for his portrayal of female characters. What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z Dream III: I find myself in a library filled with unknown masterpieces by Henry James, Joseph Conrad and others. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z What kind of suspense writer would be so reckless as to invoke Henry James’s masterpiece of terror and ambiguity and expect to see her own work do anything but suffer in the comparison? Review | Think you’ve read every twist on the nanny-in-distress novel? Ruth Ware adds a new wrinkle. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z A huge, swooping hat dominates a picture of Milly, from Henry James’s “The Wings of the Dove.” In the galleries: Many ways to express ‘Light & Movement’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Henry James: keen to get away from it all. Letters From the Palazzo Barbaro by Henry James – review 2013-06-09T10:00:01Z The great detective’s partner in this extravagant adventure is not the stolid Dr. Watson, but that most refined and fastidious of American novelists, Henry James. ‘The Fifth Heart,’ by Dan Simmons 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian You can see Henry James's masterly, much-adapted short novel either as a classic ghost story or as a study in sexual hysteria. The Turn of the Screw – review 2013-01-25T17:40:44Z But in the fall, she’ll participate in her second workshop of Susan Stroman’s “The Beast in the Jungle,” a story told through music, dance and narration that is loosely based on the Henry James novella. I Don’t Miss ‘Swan Lake’: A Ballerina’s Role on ‘The Americans’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, all are here—plus a mass of fascinating and forgotten popular literature—their cultural meanings perceptively analysed, if a little doggedly at times. Grey and dreichy 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Mohan, a letter-writer for illiterates at the GPO, reads Henry James and daydreams; Lakshmi is bullied by her autocratic older brother and in thrall to daytime television. First fiction 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z This novel, set between 1895 and 1899, treads the line between fiction and biography, exploring the later life of Henry James, the writer known as “the Master.” 20 Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: A Timeline 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z And then, a few days later, came a crisp handwritten card containing a passage from mine, Henry James’s “The Portrait of a Lady”: “There was such a thrill even in the preliminary hovering.” He Courted Me Through My Favorite Novel 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z He never musters a dense argument for Updike’s importance, which would require him to triangulate not just among Bellow and Roth and Mailer but among Proust and Hawthorne and Nabokov and Henry James. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z A couple of readers mentioned the influence of Henry James, but one asked specifically about the influence of Brideshead Revisited. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-08-12T21:55:14Z The two married quickly, in what Henry James, who gave away the bride, described as “a dreary little wedding.” Taking Another Look at the Author of ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z That may be rational, but it's also dramatically reductive, erasing the teasing ambiguities of Henry James's novella and Myfanwy Piper's libretto, and putting only a rather banal case-study of Victorian female hysteria in their place. The Turn of the Screw - review 2010-10-06T13:30:00Z I have enjoyed pull quotes from Henry James and Jane Austen, but reading their prose — forget about it! In Defense of Jane Austen. Also Zebras. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Iris Origo was a 22-year-old newlywed Anglo-American heiress — as rich, brilliant and innocent as a Henry James heroine — when she and her husband, an Italian nobleman, decided to buy La Foce. Echoes of History at a Tuscan Estate 2014-05-09T19:05:28Z Some kind person — surely trying to be, as Henry James put it, “one of those on whom nothing is lost” — had inked over the “e” in bowel. The Art of Summer: The Words We Live By 2011-08-03T12:00:05Z Mr. Fleming had been hired to read to the literary scholar Percy Lubbock, a close friend of Henry James’s, who had lost his sight. Hugh Honour, Art Historian and Author, Dies at 88 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Henry James named it “a florid fairy tale.” Fiasco Theater Company Rides Shakespeare to Success 2011-09-02T19:00:54Z Is she Henry James’s Daisy Miller, an innocent young girl who goes to Europe for experience? Books of The Times: Amanda Knox’s Memoir, ‘Waiting to Be Heard’ 2013-04-21T21:44:27Z His spare and graceful prose in a score of novels and numerous short stories was compared to Ernest Hemingway’s, while his perceptions about American society reminded some critics of Henry James. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Her biography of Wharton resembles a Wharton novel, with a lot of richly furnished rooms: the French room, the Italian room, the Henry James room. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Harvard’s Houghton Library, devoted to rare books and manuscripts, has a first edition, and I went to see it after flipping through “The Daily Henry James” for a while. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Another story line takes us back a few more decades, when an anguished Henry James is studying the young woman who will become one of his greatest fictional creations. Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z With echoes of Henry James, it features an innocent abroad, a promising student of medieval and Renaissance art. Mary Gordon’s latest offers thoughtful characters in the throes of change His next novel, The Master, took as its starting-point Henry James's deep humiliation when the first night of his play Guy Domville was a disaster. A life in books: Colm T?ib?n 2010-10-25T07:00:00Z She invents and consistently employs an engaging patois for Lucien, who acts as narrator, developing what Henry James would have deemed a “casual hint” into a rip-roaring tale. Fictional Glimpses of the Past: From the Tudors to the Czars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z They embody what Henry James called “the palpable, imaginable, visitable past” — in this case, la belle époque as if frozen in amber. In the heart of Europe, Habsburg family homes offer a haunting glimpse into history 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The cautionary example of what not to do is Niagara Falls, which, as Henry James kvetched, had become “choked in the horribly vulgar shops and booths and catchpenny artifices.” Review | How did our national parks come to be? A new book explores their rocky start. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z In the original Henry James tale, the two dead servants who have a malevolent hold over two living children never speak. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z Baldwin begins this piece by quoting Henry James directly: “It is a complex fate to be an American,” then goes on: The Unsparing Confessions of ‘‘Giovanni’s Room’’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Spookiness is scarce, though, in “Strange Window: The Turn of the Screw,” a multimedia adaptation of Henry James by the Builders Association that shifts between the contemporary world and the 19th century. ‘Strange Window: The Turn of the Screw’ Review: Henry James for the Gig Economy 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z As the works of Henry James and Diane Johnson, author of “Le Divorce,” attest, all kinds of bad things happen to Americans in Paris. Television Review: ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Is Remade Into a Mini-Series 2014-05-08T21:12:18Z That conceit worked reasonably well for Henry James and E. M. Forster, whose august shadows occasionally fall over this sunny and superficial trifle. | 'Letters to Juliet': Amanda Seyfried Helps Reunite Lovers in Verona 2010-05-13T21:17:00Z Banville’s sequel to Henry James’s novel “The Portrait of a Lady,” faithful to the master’s style and story, follows Isabel Archer back to Rome and the possible end of her marriage. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z He says: “You can’t have a biography section. You have to have them arranged by writer. For instance, Henry James’s fiction, then the letters, the biographies, etc.” Fran Lebowitz: By the Book 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The British composer's 1954 adaptation of the Henry James story, setting a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, perfectly captures the suffocating atmosphere as well as the ambiguity of the original. Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z For example, The Shadow Line that he inscribed for Andre Gide and The Mirror of the Sea he gave to Henry James. Sylvia Plath's copy of Lord Jim on sale as part of huge Joseph Conrad auction 2013-05-09T17:14:48Z I think we read letter collections in large part for the pleasure of seeing other, humanizing sides of our literary heroes: Henry James’s catty gossip; Sylvia Plath’s sewing projects; James Joyce’s raunchiness. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The book I would remove would probably be “The Ambassadors,” by Henry James. Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Here is where Mrs. Wharton resembles Joseph Conrad and Henry James, for the love scenes in this book are fully worthy of those two men of genius. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Henry James once described Joseph Conrad’s writing as a “prolonged hovering flight of the subjective over the outstretched ground” of his stories. Stan Douglas’s ‘The Secret Agent’ Offers a Refracted Vision of History and Terrorism 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Even as Chaya becomes a fascinating Henry James heroine, tormented by her wishes and her losses, Asher remains a sad, talky but unknowable elf. A Poor Girl’s Progress Through the Gilded Age 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z This must be the sunniest Henry James movie ever made. Translating Henry James for the Screen 2013-04-28T03:43:13Z Eliot called “the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James” — or, as Gore Vidal put it, as Gore Vidal would, the work of a writer who was “barely literate”? Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z “The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million,” Henry James wrote memorably in his preface to “The Portrait of a Lady.” 'Mrs. Osmond' takes up where Henry James' 'Portrait of a Lady' left off but falls a bit short 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Marlowe bumping into Shakespeare, perhaps, or Oscar Wilde at dinner with Henry James. Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z Henry James’s 1898 horror novella “The Turn of the Screw” has been adapted into many forms since it was published, including in opera, ballet and theater — some of them great works in their own right. ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ Brings Back the Ghosts of Henry James 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z A faded manse with the air of something out of a Henry James novel, the Arts Club of Washington conjures a place where you might hear a staid lecture on 19th-century horticulture. These Washington power players transform themselves into magicians one night a month 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z I’m thinking of writers like Proust and Henry James and Virginia Woolf, moving forward to, say, Thomas Bernhard. Garth Greenwell on writing sex in his novel 'What Belongs to You' and the queer literary tradition 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Just think of the opening of Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw,” in which friends share eerie stories around the fire on Christmas Eve. Michael Dirda: Ghosts and ghouls to put a chill in your Christmas reading 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Likened by some critics to the works of Mark Twain, Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen and Truman Capote, Mr. Buechner’s novels were admired by loyal readers for their elegance, wit, depth and force. Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Even though Eliot was, in the words of Henry James, “magnificently ugly,” she nonetheless radiated a charismatic allure never captured in surviving images. Review | Why Darwin grew that iconic beard and other tales of the Victorian era 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z I’ve read books I’m supposed to revere that I’ve heartily disliked, such as Ezra Pound’s “Cantos”; I don’t feel it necessary to have read all of Henry James. The Icelandic Saga That Keeps Rita Dove Coming Back for More 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z She gives her close friend and fellow literary lion Henry James a chapter, but names her husband of 28 years exactly once. After 122 Years, a Lost Edith Wharton Play Gets Its Debut 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z He’d like to do a conversation between Edith Wharton and Henry James inspired by two portraits in the American galleries that would combine an examination of the American men's wear tradition with furniture and sound. Exhibition on China and Fashion Proves Golden for Met 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens and Henry James wrote about her. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman An elegant, sinister and scalp-prickling ghost story, based on Henry James’s story The Turn of the Screw. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Novels about the fate of nations tend to be complex affairs, as if the most appropriate literary response to generations of colonialism, violence and bad politics is Henry James’s proverbial “loose baggy monster.” Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Bobby Sloan says Henry James Mason turned himself in around 8:30 a.m. Man accused of threat linked to R Kelly turns self in 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Did you know that Henry James gave away the bride at Rudyard Kipling’s wedding? Review | What can ‘The Age of Decadence’ teach us about today? A great deal. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z In Chee’s telling, the writer’s life always lurks just beyond the page, and not only in the way that Gustave Flaubert was Madame Bovary or Henry James the prepubescent heroine of “What Maisie Knew.” Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays Consider the Novelist’s Craft 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Will young people find themselves having only unconsummated love affairs, as if they were suffering characters in a Henry James novel? ‘A Curious History of Sex’ Covers Aphrodisiacs, Bicycles, Graham Crackers and More 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Henry James may have been a famously verbose writer, but he also understood the virtues of restraint in storytelling. Review: Dirty Dancing to Henry James in ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z "What emerged was this," writes Birkerts of my cohort, following a disastrous class in which they decline to engage seriously with a Henry James short story: Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Ferver’s script toys with the Henry James themes of the story line: innocent America corrupted by Europe. Review: An Innocent Abroad (Beware the Boss’s Bite) 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z A natural raconteur, he seems to precisely fit Henry James’s famous description of the novelist as one “on whom nothing is lost.” ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Frank Langella Telling Tales 2012-04-12T19:11:46Z But in this, I feel I am in rarefied company: a phrase I once came across in Henry James has always stuck with me. A Ship Sinks, and a Boy Is Enthralled 2013-08-21T16:31:12Z But the author needs to be seen among such American Gothic masters as Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe, who used terror as a way to reveal the darkest corners of the psyche. Ghost stories 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z When she smiles, she distills a quality that Henry James evoked in describing Daisy Miller and her “inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.” Movie Review: ‘Starlet,’ With Dree Hemingway 2012-11-09T01:27:15Z With Mr. Fleming, Mr. Honour, who leaves no immediate survivors, returned to Venice and the world of Henry James in “The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler and Sargent.” Hugh Honour, Art Historian and Author, Dies at 88 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Luckhurst neither downplays Lovecraft’s racism nor exaggerates it compared to his contemporaries — an anecdote about the racism of Henry James is used to telling effect. Does H.P. Lovecraft belong in the canon? 2013-05-08T22:07:00Z Mr. Marías wrote in a looping, discursive style that critics often compared to that of Henry James or Laurence Sterne, whose epigram “I progress as I digress” Mr. Marías took as a personal motto. Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z So dialogue is as charged with implicit motives as it would be in a slice of Jane Austen or Henry James. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z Unable to sell her first stories while she was raising a family, Hadley went back to school and wrote a PhD thesis on Henry James. Review | In Tessa Hadley’s new novel, death mixes everybody up 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z I read Henry James’s “Washington Square” for the first time a couple of weeks before that, and last summer I read Proust’s “The Guermantes Way” in the Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. Sally Rooney’s Attention Span Has Improved 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The book aspires toward the taut elegance of that classic nanny nightmare tale, Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw,” and, in language and complexity, it comes pretty darn close. Review | Worried about your nanny? Here’s a novel in which your worst nightmare is realized. 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z A wounded but ever-courteous Henry James mildly rebuked the author for the ‘bad manners of Boon’, which finally drew a line under their relationship. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z She was incisive on Wharton and Henry James in New York, and also on the see-saw lives of the novelists and critics of her own generation. ‘The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick’ Gives Off a Bright Light 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Somerset Maugham, in Points of View, writes that Henry James never knew how ordinary people behaved. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z In 1901, he brought out “Kim,” a picaresque boy’s adventure partly inspired by “Huckleberry Finn”; it sent Henry James into raptures. In defense of Rudyard Kipling and ‘The Jungle Books’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Henry James, who would have been my choice for Master of the Semicolon, turns out to have been famous during his lifetime for his use of dashes. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z It was a veritable temple devoted to the past two or three centuries of first-rate, secondhand and antiquarian books: the Brontë sisters, the Mitford sisters, George Eliot, James Joyce, James Jones, Henry James. A Bookworm’s Travel Plan 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z It opened with Britten’s “Owen Wingrave”: an opera based on the Henry James story of a young man who defies his family’s expectations by refusing to become a soldier. A Benjamin Britten Opera Opens Aldeburgh Festival 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z It is a book that Jane Austen or Henry James could have written. The Radiant Prince Comes to Fifth Avenue 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Although one can easily find connections between Vidal and previous American writers from Mark Twain and Henry James to H L Menken or Edmund Wilson, he remained sui generis – an American original. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z I first saw Jack Clayton’s The Innocents – an adaptation of Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw – on television when I was about 20 and it didn’t leave a big impression on me. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Now how, you may ask, did we get from Gene Kelly to Henry James? Review: Dirty Dancing to Henry James in ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Up there in the spotlight he was, in the words of novelist Henry James, “one of those on whom nothing is lost.” Richard Pryor created Chris Rock and Louis C.K. 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z At the same time, her biographer R. W. B. Lewis writes, she “felt propelled out of her metaphorical prison,” able to “exercise what Henry James had called a fantastic freedom.” How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z So said Henry James, who would doubtless recommend spending some of those sunlit hours with a good book or two. These small presses can help you think big about summer reading 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z “The whole of anything,” Henry James once wrote, “is never told.” He’s a Lifer at Angola. He’s Black. Was He Falsely Convicted? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “The Henry James Year Book,” the original 1911 publication, was meant to be used, not just read. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Henry James would've thrown Nathaniel Hawthorne and George Eliot to the dogs if only to learn from Tintoretto. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z Henry James was 50 when “The Middle Years” was published. Film: Shifting Amid, and Asserting, His Own Cinema 2010-12-10T21:22:00Z Come to think of it, I found Henry James almost unreadable five or six years ago, and now I love him! Sally Rooney’s Attention Span Has Improved 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “The Poltroon Husband,” as the title immediately suggests, mimics Henry James. Reliably Unreliable Men, Unlikely to Improve Their Lot 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z To peep into one’s stocking or not — Christmas, Henry James style, in this best of all literary parodies. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Obviously, given the fake Henry James script, yet another forger and, we are frequently reminded, a much less skillful one. Review: ‘The Forgers,’ a suspense novel by Bradford Morrow 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z He leans heavily on Charles Dickens’s and Henry James’s analyses of the American character. Books of The Times: In ‘Across the Pond,’ Terry Eagleton Explains the U.S. 2013-07-11T19:40:24Z "To Mr Collins belongs the credit of having introduced into fiction those most mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries which are at our own doors," commented Henry James. Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z A refined gothic nightmare in the manner of Henry James. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z America’s literary past is filled with brilliant, closeted gay and very possibly gay writers: Henry James, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, Hart Crane. Books of The Times: Christopher Bram?s ?Eminent Outlaws,? on American Gay Writers 2012-02-02T22:57:21Z The uneasy accommodations of a corruptible young aesthete to an ambiguous social world might have resonances too with the turn-of-the-century novels of Henry James, with their moneyed but morally seedy milieux. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z Invoking Henry James, he went on to recap the relationship among the principal characters. Ford Foundation Records Move to Rockefeller Archive Center 2012-04-08T20:21:08Z It’s hard to disagree with Henry James when he called his friend’s death in 1894, from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 44, nothing less than “an absolute devastation.” Review | Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z From the start his books were greatly admired, so much so that the fledgling author was taken under the wing of no less than the master himself, Henry James. He met Hitler, was mocked by Maugham, but what of Hugh Walpole’s books? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z In my 20s I wanted people to behave like people in Henry James novels. How to become a writer? 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z A voracious reader who can quote Henry James verbatim, Ms. Ronstadt has, if anything, too much respect for the written word. Linda Ronstadt Discusses Her Memoir and Parkinson’s 2013-08-28T15:53:56Z He had written Major Major as a former English teacher from Vermont with a distaste for Henry James. 15 things you might not know about "Catch-22" 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z This tour’s highlights includes the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, as well as places associated with writers like Henry James, Willa Cather and Eugene O’Neill. Spare Times for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z And then there is her longtime fixation on Henry James, to whom she pays tribute here by prominently placing his portrait on a chapel wall. Review | With ‘Antiquities,’ Cynthia Ozick is as vibrant on the page as ever 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Ruth Ware’s latest pays homage to Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw” while slyly updating it. The best thrillers and mysteries of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z “The Daily Henry James” is small, but its cyclical quality—reach the end, turn back to the beginning the very next day—lends it a sense of permanence. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z It depended on a literate audience, who would also be tickled by the idea of a Henry James novel called My Sexual Problem. Annie Hall: No 1 2010-10-18T10:53:00Z “I adore William James and Henry James,” says the author Kathryn Schulz, whose latest book is the memoir “Lost & Found” — “but did I also read E. L. James back in 2011? You bet.” Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Judith Clain, vice president and editor in chief of Little, Brown, said the writing reminded her of Henry James, and had an “Edgar Allan Poe feel.” Conquering TV With ‘Mad Men.’ Now Matthew Weiner Publishes a Novel. 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Fans of Henry James, on the other hand, should stay away. Review: Dirty Dancing to Henry James in ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z But a writer, according to Henry James, should be one of those on whom nothing is lost; and Hollinghurst, a very Jamesian writer, doesn’t allow this “affair” to slip into oblivion. Scandal Puts a Gay Father in Prison. What of His Gay Son, a Generation Later? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Take names from Henry James or Edith Wharton – Daisy Miller, Undine Spragg – and Adams can be imagined embodying them all with ease and subtlety. Amy Adams: 'David O Russell said to me: "You are so not the princess type"' 2012-11-22T18:21:30Z In Benjamin Britten’s opera — with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 Henry James novella — an absentee guardian hires a governess to care for his orphaned young nephew, Miles, and niece, Flora. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Her psychological observations recall Henry James and Edith Wharton: "There was a compensating generosity in his nature, that would rush in to fill the cavities gouged out by his own unkindness." The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z He adored the wisdom of Montaigne, the imagination of Calvino, the erudition and insight of Henry James and Edith Wharton. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z But she adds that there was another element at play: the influence of Henry James, whose ghost story inspired Starnone. Review | Jhumpa Lahiri translates another Italian gem into English: Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trick’ 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z As of Thursday, Henry James became, as he would say, “a little less dead.” A Day for Henry James 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The Turn of the Screw Two actors play all the roles in this stage adaptation of Henry James’ classic supernatural thriller. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 9-16: Pat Kinevane's 'Underneath' and more 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Together they began to plot a scenario for the home, taking the worldly expatriate milieu of The Golden Bowl, which is based on the Henry James novel, as inspiration. Triumph of Character 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Dickens was unimpressed with the Capulets' house in Verona, Henry James abhorred the ubiquitous hawkers selling tourist tat, and everyone, especially Twain, hated the serenading gondoliers. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-05-25T21:55:02Z Henry James once said that he who would aspire to be a writer must inscribe on his banner the one word 'Loneliness'. Author, author: Tessa Hadley 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z The Turn of the Screw Adaptation of Henry James' Gothic thriller, staged in an impromptu performance space and lit by flashlights held by audience members. L.A. theater openings, April 24-May 1: 'A Walk in the Woods' and more 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Published in 1938, was Greene's first explicitly Catholic novel and he wrote it to bring back to the British novel "the religious sense" he thought had been missing since Henry James. Brighton Rock ? review 2011-02-06T00:05:44Z Henry James, who reviewed it for The Nation, hated it. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 5: Our Mutual Friend 2012-02-01T19:54:28Z The title was written in gold lettering on the cover: “The Henry James Year Book.” The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Putting down “Harry Potter” for Henry James is not one of adulthood’s obligations, like flossing and mortgage payments; it’s one of its rewards, like autonomy and sex. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z From the sixties onward, Merchant Ivory averaged about a movie a year, both original and adapted screenplays, from work by Jhabvala, Henry James, Cheever, and others. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The book’s epigraph is from Henry James’s novel “The Ambassadors”: “Live all you can: It’s a mistake not to.” Christopher Hitchens on Writing, Mortality and Cancer 2011-10-09T20:13:18Z “The Turn of the Screw,” Britten’s 1954 adaptation of the Henry James novella concerning restless ghosts and corrupted innocents, is smaller, subtler and less widely exposed. Music Review: ‘The Turn of the Screw,’ by Opera Moderne, at Symphony Space 2012-05-28T22:04:32Z Its plot, which pits American chutzpah and naïveté against European worldliness, is as old as the early novels of Henry James. Review: Passion Pursued in ‘Do I Hear a Waltz?’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The name of his book, “The Jolly Corner,” swiped from a famous Henry James story, hints at what’s to come. Review: David Ives, in ‘Lives of the Saints,’ Mixes Gags and Philosophy 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z To the Wonder," and the contemporary Henry James adaptation "What Maisie Knew," starring Julianne Moore" -- and then flying home to Seattle. At TIFF: 'Hyde Park,' 'Great Expectations,' Dame Maggie 2012-09-10T22:30:14Z Yet for all this sorrow and anguish, which led Henry James to speak of Turgenev's collections as "agglomerations of gloom", his stories pulse with a life as vivid as any in literature. A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z Americans are lucky: they have an entire continent to roam through while trying to locate their personal version of what Henry James called "the great good place". Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z Over the next 50 years, Just was a prolific author of politically and socially conscious fiction, his influences including Hemingway and Henry James. Acclaimed author and journalist Ward Just dead at 84 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Viewed through this lens of current politics, “Kidnapped” grows into what Henry James called it — “a novel of extreme psychological truth.” Review | Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z A real reader dances from Mantel's or Self's latest to a Henry James or Agatha Christie or Lucretius. Why do we need a light show to see Hadrian's Wall? 2012-08-23T14:59:31Z There's half a page on what Stanislavski and Henry James thought of a great tragedian whose performance at the Park theatre, New York, was disrupted by Wilde's late arrival. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z Tóibín did this sort of thing once before in his novel “The Master”: shadowing a great writer — Henry James, in that case — as he works and plays. Review | Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ imagines the adventurous life of a literary great 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Henry James called her “the muse of the newspaper.” A Star Is Born? Try Manufactured, a New Book Argues 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z I adore William James and Henry James, but did I also read E. L. James back in 2011? Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The 31-year-old Stevens, who read English at Cambridge, quickly became a fixture on Brit TV playing elegant gents in adaptations of Jane Austen, Agatha Christie and Henry James. Review: In The Guest, Dan Stevens Goes from Downton Abbey to Dirty, Deranged Harry 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z I see why Henry James and Joseph Conrad admired him so. How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “I don’t think Henry James had creative writing lessons, but he read and he knew the grammar, and so he set off on a journey with it.” A Pianist Revisits His Youth, in Playful Fragments 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Barnes, the author of “The Sense of an Ending” and other beloved books, sketches his subject’s life in fascinating detail, including entanglements with Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Sarah Bernhardt. 14 New Books to Watch For in February 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Roth’s first novel, “Letting Go,” published in 1962, is narrated by a budding Henry James scholar, and depicts graduate students and junior faculty members demonstrating obeisance to the Master. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Like Henry James in “What Maisie Knew” — the 1897 divorce novella written from the point of view of the child — Cunningham understands that the tipping points of childhood are ripe moments for examination. If you can stomach only one COVID closure novel, make it Michael Cunningham's 'Day' 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The book includes a famous essay on Henry James's novel The Princess Casamassima. Why liberalism drives so many people crazy 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z In 1884, Henry James wrote that the “only condition” he could think of for the writing of a novel is “that it be sincere.” Yet another critic on the Death of the Novel: What he and everyone else are missing 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z And what unfolds quietly, in a setting worthy of a spooky Henry James tale, is an often heartbreaking story of a mother and daughter; two women joined once literally and now figuratively. ‘The Eternal Daughter’ review: Tilda Swinton is haunting in this elegant ghost story 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was discovered, rediscovered and adopted by intellectuals looking for a certain refuge from crass modernity, including John Ruskin and Henry James. Review | A classic Venetian artist gets his big moment at the National Gallery 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Edith Wharton said that Proust gave Henry James “his last, and one of his strongest, artistic emotions.” Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Arguably the greatest ghost story of them all, Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw” is atmospherically illustrated by Audrey Benjaminsen and beautifully printed by the Folio Society. Review | These scary stories will chill your blood during spooky season 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Asked during a lecture who was her favorite American woman novelist, she answered, “Henry James,” and no one laughed. Review: How Elizabeth Hardwick taught a young Black critic to read, write and laugh 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Henry James, in his commentaries on Ibsen, insightfully noted the “extraordinary process of vivification” that takes place when the playwright’s seemingly prosaic prose dramas are enacted. Review: A striking revival of 'Ghosts' at the Odyssey suffers from lack of ensemble cohesion 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “I had written a book,” he wrote, “that was compared with Henry James and Marcel Proust and, headier still, was labeled decadent.” Opinion | Frederick Buechner was a writer tuned in to the frequency of grace 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Psychologist William James, right, next to his brother, the famous novelist Henry James. Buying into conspiracy theories can be exciting – that’s what makes them dangerous 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z As a reviewer, I read everything slowly, trying to live up to Henry James’s dictum: Be one on whom nothing is lost. Review | The tale of a dropout who found purpose in books, travel and just living 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Homer’s work could be “horribly ugly,” wrote Henry James, “but there is nevertheless something one likes about him” — namely, that “he naturally sees everything at one with its envelope of light and air.” Review | A thrilling new take on Winslow Homer — America’s favorite artist 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Baseball is America’s game only in the sense that jazz is America’s music or that Henry James is America’s literature. Opinion | Baseball Is Dying. The Government Should Take It Over. 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Incredible how a diagrammatic painting of a luxury product can simultaneously anticipate the Pop Art of Andy Warhol and hark back to Oscar Wilde and Henry James. Perspective | Gerald Murphy created only 14 paintings. ‘Watch’ is the most revealing. Channeling both Henry James and Edith Wharton, this section focuses on a man of privilege bridling against the conventions of his era in order to feel real love, perhaps to his peril. The power of love to fight despair in Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘To Paradise’ 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z The first section, “Washington Square,” immediately signals its debt to Henry James’s story about a wealthy young woman whose father doubts the sincerity of her dashing suitor. Review | The remarkable worlds of Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘To Paradise’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z His 1974 adaptation of Henry James’ “Daisy Miller” starring Shepherd would be a notorious flop. In Peter Bogdanovich's best movies, and some of the worst, the past and present collide 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z He would go on to make two other films with Shephard, an adaptation of Henry James’s “Daisy Miller” and the musical “At Long Last Love,” neither of which were particularly well-received by critics or audiences. Peter Bogdanovich, director of ‘Paper Moon,’ dead at 82 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Henry James’s “technique has received the kind of praise usually accorded to some useless, ugly, and ingenious piece of carving which has taken a very long time to make.” Review | T.S. Eliot may have been flawed, but a new book reminds of his greatness on the page 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z She went to Hollywood High, largely ignoring her studies to read novels by Henry James and Colette. Eve Babitz, who chronicled and reveled in Hollywood hedonism, dies at 78 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z It wasn’t likely you were going to be as good as Henry James. 'I have to look at flat horizons': Joan Didion on her apocalyptic California optimism 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z After “The Piano,” Campion made the sexual, somewhat campy “Holy Smoke!” before moving on to an experimental, psychological adaptation of Henry James’s “The Portrait of a Lady.” Inside Jane Campion’s Cinema of Tenderness and Brutality 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Like so many of his plays, “A Shot Rang Out” is constructed along parallel nuances that might architecturally serve a Henry James novel but lack the material sturdiness to support a satisfying drama. Review: At South Coast Rep, 'A Shot Rang Out' proves to be an eloquent misfire 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Tóibín — whose fictional take on the life of Henry James, “The Master,” was a Booker Prize finalist in 2004 — is at home in Mann’s contradictions, capturing the entire Mann family’s odd humors, conflicts and ordeals. Colm Tóibín pens gripping retelling of Thomas Mann’s life in ‘The Magician’ 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z His directness, along with his sense of characters’ subjectivity, felt new in the era following Henry James and Theodore Dreiser. Ken Burns' new Hemingway documentary doesn't give you a reason to read Hemingway 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z He studied in Germany and traveled to Italy, where he met James McNeill Whistler, a major influence, and novelist Henry James. Perspective | A tour de force of eroticism — without any nudity Cather started her career by writing imitations of Henry James and Edith Wharton, novels about high society New York life that left her feeling unfulfilled. Struggling to find a story idea, Lee Isaac Chung received mystical guidance. Really. 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Set in London, Lurie’s novel was consciously based on old-fashioned narratives of manners and customs, with one character imagining himself trapped in a Henry James story. Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z It eventually grew into a sprawling company with more than 30 publishing units, and a backlist of literary treasures like the works of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Penguin Random House to buy Simon & Schuster for $2 billion in deal creating first megapublisher 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z And at the height of the Spanish flu, people were still reading Edith Wharton and Henry James, who also wrote about rich people. Kevin Kwan is no one-trick pony 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z He studied in Germany and traveled to Italy, where he met James McNeill Whistler, a major influence, and novelist Henry James. Perspective | A tour de force of eroticism — without any nudity “Miss Knight’s bitterness is reserved, shaped for irony; she chooses her words as carefully as Henry James might have done,” critic Walter Kerr wrote in the Times. Shirley Knight, Tony- and Emmy-winning actress who spoke her mind, dies at 83 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The Turning Floria Sigismondi updates Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw” to a more modern era, with all the moody gothic vibes enhanced by the film’s grunge-era Washington state setting. Tiffany Haddish's 'Like a Boss' and 'The Turning' top new releases to watch at home 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Henry James, writing on the modern tragedian Henrik Ibsen, observes that the great Norwegian playwright transcends his limitations by showing us “the individual caught in the fact.” What to do during your coronavirus home quarantine? How about: Nothing 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Henry James stared at the glyph saying ‘denied’. Alien, go home 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z This is a man who, armed with only the grain of an idea — what Henry James calls the “windblown” seed — lives for weeks in a state of formlessness. The Many Lives of Marc Jacobs 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z His first book, “American Nervousness, 1903,” told the life stories of a dozen novelists, including Henry James and Edith Wharton. Tom Lutz fights for L.A. publishing, this time as a novelist 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z The view from Jeff’s rear window calls to mind Henry James’s “house of fiction”, which “has not one window but a million”. Infinite scroll: life under Instagram 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The crash took place on a traffic circle in Sheffield in 2018, and both Hartley and the other driver, Henry James Hibbs, fled the scene. Court bans supercar dealer from driving after street racing wreck 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James A young woman’s auspicious future and personal autonomy is destroyed by one of the most poisonous men in fiction. Top 10 books about toxic masculinity 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “This little book is a gem,” wrote Times book critic Orville Prescott, comparing Ms. Spencer’s expatriate plot to the work of Henry James. Elizabeth Spencer, prolific short-story writer and chronicler of the South, dies at 98 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z But the tricky novels of American author Henry James were the trio’s other noteworthy source material for costumed sagas. Review: ‘The Europeans’ delivers sophistication, flirtation and sumptuous costumes 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s reminiscent of late Henry James — but unlike James, Stafford knew when it was all getting to be a bit too slow. Review: New collection roams as many extremes as Jean Stafford's Golden State 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Ruth Ware’s The Turn of the Key is a wonderfully suspenseful riff on Henry James’s classic The Turn of the Screw, set in the Scottish Highlands and with toxic children at its heart. Mary Poppins, Madame Doubtfire and a murderer: the best books about nannies 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The novelist Henry James was disgusted by the people he saw “swarming” on New York’s heavily Jewish Lower East Side, who reminded him of “small, strange animals . . . snakes or worms.” When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z This “strange trio” – “a famously heterosexual commoner alongside two aristocrats of ‘Hellenic tendencies’” – were given a letter of introduction from Sargent to Henry James. Julian Barnes: ‘Do you expect Europe to cut us a good deal? It’s so childish’ 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Ware makes no secret of her debt to Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw,” but cunningly updates this seminal work of psychological horror for the age of cellphones and smart house technology. From a twisted auctioneer to Stephen King as read by TV’s ‘Dexter,’ 5 haunting audiobooks for October 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z But Florence, cradle of the Renaissance, remains undisturbed, a tableau of Medici-era palazzos, museums and monuments — a city where, as Henry James wrote in 1869, everything “seems coloured with a mild violet, like diluted wine.” Amid the Renaissance Architecture of Florence, an Unexpected Villa 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z I used to live my life reading EM Forster and Henry James. Ann Patchett: ‘We’re almost embarrassed by grief. It’s so strange’ 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Henry James, writing, in 1879, about Nathaniel Hawthorne, spelled out some of the possibilities available to an American overshadowed by the “darkening cloud” of original sin that came with the Puritan heritage. Sex and Power in “The Catholic School” 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Apart from Henry James, whom you wrote about in The Master, is there an author that you always return to? Colm Tóibín: ‘A book wouldn’t improve Trump’ 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z I imagine that for Henry James, for example, the extended European tour of his youth led him to write about American expatriates. Perspective | Snoopy taught me how to be a writer 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Henry James gave away the bride, though he said later, “It’s a union of which I don’t forecast the future.” Rudyard Kipling in America 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Her films have the layered psychology and narrative depth of a nineteenth-century novel; while working on “The Souvenir,” she reread Henry James’s “The Portrait of a Lady.” Joanna Hogg’s Self-Portrait of a Lady 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Though she has spent another thirty years writing about human relations, it was in her friendship with Henry James that she really attained her literary height. Dearest Edith 1929-02-23T05:00:00Z Henry James contributed more than 200 reviews and travel essays. The Nation: oldest weekly magazine in the US names new editor 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Lahiri’s working relationship with Starnone is a passionate cross-cultural conversation, which for their latest collaboration, Trick, took in Kafka and Henry James. 'It's a silent conversation': authors and translators on their unique relationship 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Many of the writers Winters most admired wound up in Rahv’s paleface pantheon—Hawthorne, Melville, Emily Dickinson, Henry James. John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z David Lodge published Author, Author, a novel about Henry James, in the same year that three other Jamesian books came out, including one by Colm Tóibín that got more attention and praise. Headbutts, snark and furious obsession: a toxic history of literary rivalries 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z From many she has earned the title of Dearest Edith and for herself she has perfectly written what she hopes will finally be her epitaph—“She was a friend of Henry James.” Dearest Edith 1929-02-23T05:00:00Z The new season of "Bly Manor" will feature new characters and a new story, and will be based on author Henry James' 1898 horror novella "The Turn of the Screw." 'The Haunting of Hill House' returning to Netflix for second season 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z And she loved it so much that she stayed on to do her PhD, on Henry James. Tessa Hadley: ‘Long marriages are interesting. You either hang on or you don't' 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z After “Surviving R. Kelly” aired, one of the singer’s managers, Henry James Mason, was arrested in Georgia for “terroristic threats” against one of the families featured in the film. The Lonely, and Often Risky, Pursuit of R. Kelly: ‘Where Was Everybody Else?’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The Henry County Sheriff's Office told us Henry James Mason turned himself in around 9 a.m. Former R. Kelly manager surrenders on terroristic threats charge 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The melodrama, based on the Henry James novella, is gorgeous to look at, but it needed more of a lightness of touch. 4 movies open Jan. 11; our reviewers weigh in 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z An editor travels to 19th-century Italy seeking love letters written by a famous poet in this adaptation of Henry James’ novella. L.A. movie openings, Jan. 11: ‘A Dog’s Way Home,’ ‘Rust Creek’ and more 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z In the late seventies, Jhabvala proposed an adaptation of Henry James’s “The Europeans” to Merchant and Ivory, anticipating that the book would be a good match for Ivory’s sensibility. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Forster for the big screen, winning Academy Awards for both, as well as other classic novels like “The Bostonians” by Henry James and “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, known for her screenplays, wrote of colliding cultures in her fiction 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z And so she seems to be, illuminating the rich, introverted Boston suffragette at the heart of Henry James’ brilliant novel with fine intelligence and quiveringly passionate fervor. Review: Proper portraits in Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala's 'The Bostonians' 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “Writers, leave your work alone! Henry James showed you what happens!” Margaret Atwood is right to have the last word on The Handmaid’s Tale | Stephanie Merritt 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z I keep thinking of that line, spoken by Morris Townsend in the movie “The Heiress,” based on Henry James’s “Washington Square.” Opinion | Marrying Him Was Political. Sponsoring His Visa Is for Love. 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Those range from the tale of a womanizing tennis player to the writer Henry James as he ponders his creative process. Best books of 2018 The idea of government certification may be unattractive to some crypto enthusiasts who like secrecy, but there is a demand for regulation from many issuers, said Henry James, deputy CEO of Fincross International. France hopes to lure crypto-issuers with Gallic stamp of approval 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z In Henry James, writing some 100 years ago, Olive’s consuming attraction would probably have never become overt. Review: Proper portraits in Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala's 'The Bostonians' 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Edith Wharton and Henry James loved ghost stories. Opinion | I Believe in Ghosts 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z The book is not so much a novel, in the Henry James sense of the term, as a sort of wad of themes and scenes and cultural wishes. How “Little Women” Got Big 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z He was not interested in national folklore, and described a milieu not too distant from that of Henry James or Edith Wharton. He’s One of Brazil’s Greatest Writers. Why Isn’t Machado de Assis More Widely Read? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Until recent decades, the library preserved circulation records, including the reading histories of prominent members like Henry James, P.G. President Washington, Your Library Books Are Overdue 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Henry James stayed there from time to time, and it inspired the setting for his novel “The Wings of the Dove.” A Revealing Statue of Washington Arrives, but Not Its Champion 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Ah, I thought, he’s what Saul Bellow calls “an exuberance hoarder”, restrained by High Seriousness and, in his case, restrained by an exaggerated reverence for Henry James. Martin Amis on Philip Roth: 'the kind of satirical genius that comes along once in a generation' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Philip Roth was more than capable of the kind of formal patterning and closure that preoccupied the work of Henry James, with whom he now stands shoulder-to-shoulder in the American literary firmament. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “Letting Go,” published in 1962, was derived in about equal parts from Bellow and Henry James. Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Bellow was an early influence, as were Thomas Wolfe, Flaubert, Henry James and Kafka, whose picture Roth hung in his writing room. Prolific, provocative author Philip Roth, dies at 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Critics were not always kind — “the presiding spirit is Fabio, not Henry James,” one reviewer sniffed in the New York Times — but readers adored Ms. Shreve’s books. Anita Shreve, best-selling author who wrote of love and loss, dies at 71 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Highly intelligent, she was welcomed into London's literary and artistic circles, enjoying friendships with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James. Actresses, arsonists and aristocrats: Women who won the vote 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Leavis, a well-known literary critic at Cambridge University, listed him in “The Great Tradition” as being up there with Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James. Joseph Conrad, the first novelist of globalisation 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z His two pre-eminent novels, “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina,” clock in at more than 1,200 and 800 pages respectively, the former so massive that Henry James called it a “loose, baggy monster.” Tolstoy’s Classics Are Still Fresh a Century and a Half Later 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z So don’t write, if you can help it, sentences of the sort that caused Clover Adams to say of Henry James that he chewed more than he could bite off. Don’t press send … The new rules for good writing in the 21st century 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z When I think of Raisin I remember Henry James’s phrase, “a knock-down insolence of talent”. Best holiday reads 2017, picked by writers – part two 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z As a reward for her bravery, she was allowed to choose the new baby's name - Riley Henry James. Bravery award for Caerphilly girl who delivered baby brother - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z "Kerosene keeps families locked in a cycle of extreme poverty with almost one quarter of their monthly income spent burning the fuel," explains Inventid co-founder Henry James. UK firm designs 'world's most affordable solar lamp' - BBC News 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z When Henry James looked at women, he imagined that they thought like him. John Updike’s Rabbit, Run – another American story of men escaping women 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Based on "The Aspern Papers" and more Hollywood gothic than pure noir, this story of the hunt for lost love letters has more creepy moments than author Henry James would have thought possible. Splendid restorations and new prints of beloved classics highlight UCLA's biannual Preservation Film Festival 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z I’ve come absurdly late to Henry James having developed an allergy reading The Ambassadors as a set university text. Best holiday reads 2017, picked by writers – part two 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z “Henry James and the King James Bible. I’d just write down his sentences because I liked the sound of them.” 30 years after his death, James Baldwin is having a new pop culture moment 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z He refers, in a typical cascade of inspirations, to the castle in Kafka, the golden bowl in Henry James and the Hitchcockian object, the MacGuffin, that is both everything and nothing. Jonathan Lethem: ‘I’ve always thought of myself as a dark writer, but this is utterly different’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Henry James, marveling at the crowds gathered for the funeral procession, summed up the feeling: “We all felt, publicly, at first, quite motherless.” Two new books on ‘Victoria,’ queen of all she surveyed 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z In the same interview, Hazzard expressed her surprise at the frequent comparisons between her work and that of Henry James. Shirley Hazzard, internationally acclaimed Australian author, dies at 85 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Based on the Henry James book “The Turn of the Screw.’ TV Picks for Nov. 10: ‘Mom’ on CBS 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z And with that donnée, as Henry James would have called it, the excitement begins. How Jack Reacher Was Built 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z But I’ll choose a classic here: “The Innocents,” the 1961 black-and-white adaptation of Henry James’ brilliant ghost story, “The Turn of the Screw.” 10 spine-tingling movies for Halloween 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z In this, he resembled Henry James, whose preface to “What Maisie Knew” he had read carefully. The Novelist of Human Unknowability 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z “There is this myth that I was formed on Henry James,” she said. Shirley Hazzard, internationally acclaimed Australian author, dies at 85 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Editor Judith Clain said the novel “brings to mind Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James and yet is utterly modern.” 'Mad Men' Creator Matthew Weiner Is Writing His First Novel 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Four years into the marriage, Nussbaum read “The Golden Bowl,” by Henry James. The Philosopher of Feelings 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z If you have conjured screenplays, as he has, from Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Elmore Leonard, and Patricia Highsmith, then le Carré is no cause for alarm, and some of Amini’s alterations are well wrought. “Independence Day”: Peace No More 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z She has spoken of her aversion to stages and of her impatience with what Henry James, her lifelong inspirator, called “the twaddle of mere graciousness.” Cynthia Ozick’s Long Crusade 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In 1880, Henry James wrote in Washington Square of its “rural and accessible appearance” – a quality that had not entirely dimmed by the 1950s. Story of cities #32: Jane Jacobs v Robert Moses, battle of New York's urban titans 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z To ask him to dive would be like asking Henry James to write like Henry Miller. The fall: how diving became football’s worst crime | Alejandro Chacoff 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The house had history; Devlin’s parents told her that T. S. Eliot played his first game of Ping-Pong there; Henry James had lived just up the road. Designing Stages for Shakespeare and Kanye 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Towards the end of 1915, as he became increasingly unwell, Henry James revised his will. Colm Tóibín: how Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z He revisits the circuses and sideshows of his Manhattan youth with all the scruples of the older Henry James. The Peculiar Radiance of Henry James’s Memoirs 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Photograph: Alamy Henry James tried his best to obliterate every trace of his private life. Dirt for art's sake: what's offensive and what's essential in author biographies? 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Henry James’s journalists were almost all ‘‘interviewers,’’ and his characters, like Selah Tarrant in ‘‘The Bostonians,’’ crave their scrutiny: ‘‘The wish of his soul was that he might be interviewed,’’ James wrote. Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z You wouldn’t mistake it for Henry James or even for Hitchcock. Review: Del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’ casts a gothic spell 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Just as many have been overlooked: Leo Tolstoy, Henry James and Henrik Ibsen are among those who never won a Nobel. Nobel prize for literature to be awarded on Thursday 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z So it’s no surprise that, at a time when memoirs are doing much of the work of emotional transmission that novels once did, we would like those of Henry James. The Peculiar Radiance of Henry James’s Memoirs 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Related: How Edith Wharton led me on a long and winding road back to Henry James Over the next six years James wrote a number of novels and stories. I embraced Henry James’s fight against complacency | Colm Toíbín 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Gide smoked, talking in mandarin French about Oscar Wilde and Henry James as if he were giving a lecture. A life in feuds: how Gore Vidal gripped a nation 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z He read Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Henry James, the entire canon of Western literature, which he made his own. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brilliant inspiration: Remembering James Baldwin’s influence on his 91st birthday 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z The one exception, the one entirely affectionate parody in the book, may be the best parody in English—the one of Henry James, called “The Mote in the Middle Distance.” The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Yet Henry James, in a long obituary tribute, complained that Trollope’s work lacked irony, and, for all his mastery of daily life, was not realistic enough. Why Trollope Is Trending 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z We still laud many novels that began as serials: George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” Thomas Hardy’s “Far From the Madding Crowd,” Henry James’s “Portrait of a Lady.” Bring back the serialized novel 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Henry James, for example, complained that the fervour for Austen was incited by “a body of publishers” who found “their dear, our dear, everybody’s dear, Jane so infinitely to their material purpose”. Is Popularity Killing Jane Austen? 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Accumulating beautiful houses and art, they exemplify New York’s Gilded Age as described by writers such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. Treasures From New York's Frick Collection Come to Europe 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The stories are inspired by Henry James’s literary tales—“The Figure in the Carpet,” “The Death of the Lion,” and the like—but surpass them in the range and human sympathy of their character-making. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z But the Frick may be New York's most traditionally New York museum, a marble redoubt impervious to time and tastes, a museum for Titian and El Greco, of Edith Wharton and Henry James. The Frick Collection Prepares for a Sumptuous Winter On Henry James’s deathbed, his late brother’s widow saw that as James was dying, his hand moved across the bedsheet as if he were still writing. Old Masters at the Top of Their Game 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The Sacred Fount by Henry James Why did Emily Brontë have to die so young, and he live so long after he stopped writing readable fiction? My top 10 unfinishable novels 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The great novelist Henry James put it this way: “Try to become someone on whom nothing is lost.” Cultivating Student Voices and Free Speech on College Campuses 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Instead, notwithstanding a few outliers like Henry James and Edith Wharton, we have a literature of boys’ adventures and female sentimentality. The Death of Adulthood in American Culture 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z From the "gilded age" of Edith Wharton and Henry James to the rhythms of the Harlem Renaissance and Beat poets, writers have long been drawn to the east coast's biggest city. Reading American cities: New York in books 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z But it does have a lot to say about a fundamental schism between Mark Twain’s school and Henry James’s, if that’s your bag. 7 Ridiculous Exhibits the Redskins Invoked in Their Trademark Defense 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Here isn't Henry James because I have never been able to remember the beginning of his sentences by the time I get to the end. Linda Grant: 'I have killed my books' 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Or that Farrand’s mother is credited with having introduced Henry James to Wharton? ‘Groundbreakers’ Pays Tribute to Female Landscape Designers 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z He went on to sing the role of the tutor Spencer Coyle in Britten’s opera “Owen Wingrave,” based on the Henry James short story. John Shirley-Quirk, Bass-Baritone, Is Dead at 82 2014-04-21T02:35:13Z If you don’t believe me, believe Henry James. Amanda Knox, what really happened: Writing toward the actual story 2014-02-09T12:00:00Z With a back catalogue ranging from 19th-century master stylist Henry James to kinky novelist EL James, and nearly 250 separate imprints, Penguin Random House will publish 5,000 new titles a year. Plot thickens for authors as Penguin and Random House merger creates £2.6bn powerhouse 2013-07-27T23:05:27Z Federer, who in addition to his sublime physical gifts is, to paraphrase Henry James, someone on whom nothing is lost, seemed distracted by Murray's briefly seeming to stop playing. Straight Sets: For Federer, Anger Goes Only So Far 2013-01-25T22:09:31Z It was hugely popular and had some famous followers, including Henry James and Franz Kafka. History's weirdest fad diets 2013-01-02T00:39:38Z He changed the look of the armory before World War I. His family controlled the publishing house that put Henry James and Edith Wharton before the public. City Room: Behind the Scenes at the Armory, an Immersion Course in History 2012-08-17T19:15:43Z The little houses would light up and they would tell the ghost stories associated with writers who had lived in the area such as Henry James, Rumer Godden and Joan Aiken. The designer going from Gaga to the Olympic closing ceremony 2012-06-29T21:55:14Z Henry James once wrote of the human soul and it made me think of Liszt: "A romantic, moonlighted landscape, with woods and mountains and dim distances, visited by strange winds and murmurs." Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Saddest of all befel when from his own side of House Rollit bluntly denounced Clause, Carson hoped it wouldn't be pressed, and Henry James, from allied camp opposite, demolished it with final shot. Punch, or the London Charivari, November 25, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:30.783Z I’ve never liked Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady, and large swaths of Faulkner feel turgid and overwritten to me, and I’m allergic to Pynchon. Prize Fight: Why I'm Okay With There Being No Pulitzer for Fiction This Year 2012-04-18T12:20:59Z Henry James, Attorney-General to the previous Government, spoke publicly on the subject in the plainest terms. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Take for example this portrait of the modern American boy given us by Mr. Henry James, Jr., in his Daisy Miller, which was, I believe, the work that first brought him into fame. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Henry James, Sr. Dear Father, in the morning hour of this new day, we thank Thee for the glorious revelation of Thyself in the open Book of Nature. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z Before me lies an autograph letter from Henry James to his friend Doctor Rice. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Mr. Chesterton and the late Henry James are not very often thought of as intellectual or spiritual brothers. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Christened Henry James, Redknapp was born in Poplar, east London, the son and grandson of dockers. Harry Redknapp: the people's manager 2012-02-12T00:06:48Z If business had been choosing spokesmen at Washington it would no more have picked out Mr. Lodge than it would have picked out James Hazen Hyde or Henry James. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z He took it with full seriousness; there never was a scholar more immersed in research than was Henry James in the study of his chosen world. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z With the prudishness and peanut piety of puritanism Henry James has nothing in common. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z For it is pleasant to see that, unlike Henry James, Chesterton has been steadily mastering his style, mastering it so thoroughly that he can lay it aside when it is inappropriate. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The Henry James struck a coral reef near the island of Palmyra, in the Pacific Ocean, and became a wreck. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z To write Henry James for story, Charles T. Brooks for sketches of travel. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The world is not used to such deference from a rare critical talent, and it certainly has much less respect for its own standards than Henry James had, or seemed to have. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z It does rather take the breath away, but, after all, didn't the tolerant and catholic critic who was Henry James say that no one is constrained to like any particular kind of writing? Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The late Robert Browning was another litterateur who wrote in commendation of the book, as did Mrs. Gladstone, Henry James, Mr. Russell Lowell, Miss Sewell, Mr. Phelps, and many others. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z I have already mentioned Mr. Henry James’s description of the place. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z His letters to Godkin, of the Nation, protesting against unfair criticism of the work of the elder Henry James, are a lesson for critics, and no doubt Godkin's reply was a model of magnanimous contrition. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z If we may trust his own report, Henry James had reached the age of seventeen with a curiously vague understanding of his own talent. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Neither Mr. Hueffer nor Miss West is in doubt as to the essential Americanism of Henry James. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Henry James had found the United States lacking in background; the lack was evident, but not in the country of his birth. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z I believe that Henry James was first introduced to us by Mr. Lowell, and became a frequent visitor afterwards. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z A few doubly or trebly gifted men, Dryden, Coleridge, Poe, Arnold, Pater, Henley, Stevenson, Henry James, could do first-rate work in more than one genre, including criticism. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z His description shews that Henry James had now his own ambitions, even if he preferred to nurse them unobtrusively. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The sublime tenuities of Henry James, like the black music of Michael Artzibashef, are questions largely temperamental. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Occasionally a book, such as Henry James' "Princess Casamassima," or W. D. Howells' "Modern instance," is replaced because the library must have it on the shelves, not because it is popular. Library Bookbinding 2011-12-24T03:07:58.950Z Others, like Mr. Henry James, are provincial in outlook, but cosmopolitan in experience, and reveal their provinciality by a self-conscious internationalism. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Conrad's propensity for exposition is allied, no doubt, with his admiration for Mr. Henry James, of whom he has written an extremely "literary" appreciation. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z The novel had already been engaged by Mr. Howells for the Atlantic Monthly, and its composition marks the definite end of Henry James's literary apprenticeship. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z I quoted Henry James to the effect that all life is the province of the novelist. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z It was of course taken from the title of Mr. Henry James's delightful novel. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z It is included in the volume Letters from America to which Henry James contributed so affectionate and desperately unintelligible a preface—one of the last things James wrote. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The essays on books are unpretentious notes—eight pages on Henry James, seven on Maupassant, twelve on Anatole France, short excursions in criticism made between the longer voyages to the islands of the blessed. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z If anything can give to those who did not know him an impression of Henry James's talk, it will be some of the finest of these later letters. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z In company with other distinguished men who have passed away during the progress of the war, the loss of Henry James was passably chronicled. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Henry James would not have treated the situations with more clarity. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Now they and their mother were spending the summer on the south coast of England, at Iden, quite close to Rye, where Henry James was already becoming established. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z He frequently reminds us that he is a Slav who learned French along with his native tongue, that he has read Flaubert and Maupassant and Henry James. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z The best thanks of the editor are due to Henry James's family, and particularly to his niece, Mrs. Bruce Porter, for much valuable help. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The fiction of Henry James is for the future. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Every thoughtful reader has noticed these combinations; but we sometimes forget that Silver, Alan, Henry, and the Master are just as fine examples of character-portrayal as can be found in the works of Henry James. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z The letter of May 3rd drew from Henry James a long reply which may be found in the "Letters of Henry James," under date of May 24th; the reply, in its turn, elicited this response:— The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z If we really understood Conrad's fiction we have no difficulty in understanding his filial relation to Henry James. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z THE letters in this section take up the story of Henry James's life at the exact point to which he brought it in the second instalment of his reminiscences, Notes of a Son and Brother. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The spiritual string music of Henry James is more thrilling to the educated ear than the sound of the big drum and the blaring of trumpets. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z As Professor Beers has remarked, if Mr. Howells knows his countrymen no more intimately than does Henry James, at least he loves them better. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Temple, "Minny," the original of two of Henry James's heroines, 1, 36; J. quoted on, 36, 37; her "madness," 38; mentioned, 43, 51, 74, 75, 98. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Met Henry James, Sr., there, and he asked me to come and dine, also called upon me with Mrs. James. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z But in evoking his youth it was no part of Henry James's design to write a consecutive tale, and the order of dates and events is constantly obscured in the abundance of his memories. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Henry James belonged to this group for a longer time than the majority of his critics suspected. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z |
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