Recovering American Literature, by Peter Shaw by Evelyn Toynton One of the peculiar luxuries that literature has always afforded us is the chance to experience to the full the…
American Stories by Evelyn Toynton The poet-critic Randall Jarrell once defined the novel as “a prose narrative of a certain length that has something wrong…
Evelyn Waugh, by Martin Stannard by Evelyn Toynton The novelist Evelyn Waugh would present a formidable challenge to any biographer.
The Volcano Lover, by Susan Sontag by Evelyn Toynton Susan Sontag arrived at her present intellectual eminence with the publication of her first collection of essays, Against Interpretation (1966),…
Brightness Falls, by Jay McInerney by Evelyn Toynton You will have to learn everything all over again.”
The Columbia History of the American Novel, edited by Emory Elliott by Evelyn Toynton To judge by the essays collected in this volume, one of the chief attractions of multiculturalism, for the professors at…
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems, edited by Colin Falck by Evelyn Toynton Literature being an art in which women have acquitted themselves rather spectacularly, it remains perplexing that their greatest achievements should…