Ernest Hemingway’s one enduring character? Ernest Hemingway.

The many varieties of misery in the dazzling short stories of Machado de Assis

The essays in “The Rub of Time” defend careful thought and use of language.

Constance Fenimore Woolson wrote bitter, morbid, and severe fictions, but her devotion to James was her undoing.

Garth Greenwell’s "What Belongs to You" is the Great Gay Novel for our times

This twenty-first century Henry James update is too cute by half.

The identity crisis of Zadie Smith.