In a 1969 essay, Elizabeth Hardwick described the worst kind of literary biography: the overstuffed, underthought tome whose claim to authority rests solely upon the accumulation of facts. In such ...

There was a time I would rather have endured minor surgery than read a 400-page biography of D.H. Lawrence, whose misogyny is canon. “The one vile man I have ever known,” wrote Virginia Woolf. When ...

Of all the countless anecdotes told of D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), my absolute favorite takes in the musician-cum-critic Cecil Gray, Lawrence’s neighbor during his World War I-era sojourn in Cornwall.

It’s extraordinary how far he succeeded: what extremes of love and hate he has provoked. For decades after his death, every critic, almost every reader, had their opinion about Lawrence. Responding to ...

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works ...

Young Bert -- His mother's darling -- Stranger in a strange land -- Death in life -- The best I have known -- Terra Incognita -- Rananim -- England, their England -- The nightmare -- Babes in the wood ...

Are we, finally, post-COVID? Reading Lara Feigel’s Look! We Have Come Through!, it feels like we are. The emotional consequences and aesthetic ramifications of the pandemic will continue to ripple ...