November 2021

When Frances Wilson was a teenager her mother forbade D.H. Lawrence’s books in the house and her college English professor refused to teach him. It was...

“I always knew I would someday write a book about my family,” writes Maria Stepanova in a chapter of In Memory of Memory called “On Beginnings.”...

In early 2020, just before the coronavirus upended American life, I sat down with a prominent poverty expert and asked what she thought of the efforts...

Henry James went to prison on a December morning in 1884. He was a good walker and probably set out on foot from his flat off...

The colony known as German Southwest Africa (now the nation of Namibia) was born out of a monumental swindle. In 1883 Adolf Lüderitz, a tobacco merchant...

In the opening scene of Molly Keane’s Good Behaviour, a novel about an Anglo-Irish household in the first half of the twentieth century, a fifty-seven-year-old woman...