With his combination of vast historical knowledge, willingness to travel under the most shabby and dangerous conditions, and his acute powers of observation, he is a fitting heir to Sir Richard Francis Burton, Freya Stark, Rebecca West, ...
Subjects range from accounts of childhood to thoughts on, for example, Turner, DH Lawrence and Rebecca West a fairly wide net, and he doesn't keep to literature. Of West, who wrote for us in the days when I edited these pages, he records her calling ...
He specializes in the study of iconoclasts and rebels, including the controversial writer and public intellectual, Rebecca West. Hating God is his third book. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's 36 Arguments for the Existence of God is a novel that steers ...
Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company Presents Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm
Johannes Rosmer, whose insane wife committed suicide one year ago, lives at his familial estate with a housekeeper and Rebecca West, friend and caretaker of his late wife. Rosmer and Rebecca have enjoyed a platonic comradeship through the years that is ...
Devil's Bookmark: Doubting God's Existence, But Angry Nevertheless
He specializes in the study of iconoclasts and rebels, including the controversial writer and public intellectual, Rebecca West. Hating God is his third book. Part One of Bernard Schweizer's essay on James Wood's God-hating novel is here. ...
... somewhere enjoying one big fat summer read after another, books like The Name of the Rose, RWB Lewis's biography of Edith Wharton, Hugo Claus's The Sorrow of Belgium, Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, Rebecca West's Black Lamb, Grey Falcon. ...
Theater Talkback: The Good That Comes From Bad Reviews
In her classic 1914 essay in The New Republic, The Duty of Harsh Criticism, Rebecca West argued that the English arts press had become so reverential that a new and abusive school of criticism was necessary. That seems less urgent in the age of the ...