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 ...
Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities at the University of Delaware, is the author of a newly published article in The Henry James Review, a ...
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Henry James Was Not at Home in America
Contra Thomas Wolfe, you actually can go home again—but once you see how much it’s changed, you may want to leave just as quickly. When Henry James, after spending most of his adult life abroad, ...
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 ...
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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 ...
"Concerning the job numbers from May, one can almost echo Henry James's exclamation after examining letters pertaining to Lord Byron's incest: 'Nauseating perhaps, but how quite inexpressibly ...
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