A patron saint of exquisite verbosity, James made a career examining the clash of American innocence with European cunning. Here are his best works. By Lauren Christensen If your idea of festive joy ...
A good-looking young man with a mysterious past carries a loaded gun, ready to kill, on the streets of the world’s financial capital. The high-profile slaying and James’s novel help explain the public ...
The mystery of human choices, even when circumstances are known, occupied writers like Henry James. Gene J. Puskar/Getty Images A good-looking young man with a mysterious past carries a loaded gun, ...
An oil portrait of the author Henry James, by John Singer Sargent, 1913. (National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons) Prudence indeed dictates that no one, not you nor me nor anyone else, inclusive ...
On Writers and Writing: Essays by Henry James, edited by Michael Gorra (New York Review Books, 408 pp., $24.95) The criticism of Henry James (1843–1916) is replete with imperiousness. We can hear this ...
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Henry James’s Venice is still here
In a quiet, almost empty part of Venice stands a Renaissance palazzo with an unusually large garden. The garden is invisible from the outside, blocked by a high brick wall that I recognized when I saw ...
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