New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
The roll call of famous gout sufferers is long and distinguished. It includes Ben Franklin, Henry James and Karl Marx.
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Orwell’s diaries in blog form Esquire to release e-paper cover Top 10 graphic novels Is Henry James unadaptable? (Does this have something to do with literary Darwinism') Alphabet made of dead Halo characters 10 most expensive books about BC (happy birthday, BC) Small press profile in UK: Shire Books If “fucking” is the adjective, what’s the adverb? (Thanks, P)
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
James's complex, lengthy novels seem destined to defy the attempts of those who would condense them into straightforward drama
THE GURGLING COD (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
This thing with apocryphal 33 1/3 books written by dead authors could well be the feel-good meme of the late summer. I'm especially looking forward to Henry James on Steely Dan's Aja. And you?
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Has someone confused Henry James with Leonardo da Vinci? This is The Portrait of a Lady – the novelist's 1881 masterpiece about Americans on the Grand Tour – but it's as if Nicki Frei's new adaptation has been penned in mirror writing.
The Stage (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Theatre Royal Bath: Nicki Frei's episodic stage version of one of Henry James' most famous novels, given its world premiere at the start of the Peter Hall Company summer season in Bath, is set in Rome, Florence, London and the English countryside. So Peter Mumford's marble-pillared set and back-projected photographic panoramas are all-important as the backcloth to the story of impressionable young...
Earning My Turns (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Henry James is My Ambien : As I now learn, late-period James is a very different animal than early-period James. I’m reading “The Wings of the Dove”, and find that, in spite of being a native speaker of english and well-read in James’ contemporaries, I simply cannot understand what he writes some fraction of the time [...] dust off your sentence diagramming skills and see what you can make of this,...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY BY HENRY JAMES Hodder, £11.99, three CDS
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Anna Jane Clare meant to post about Henry James, but ended up devoting most of her post to how the feral underclass is created (NSFW warning: may contain swearing). Lynne Featherstone has been on t’wireless. Love and Garbage has less a post and more a treatise bemoaning the MSM’s failure to examine Cameron, especially his speeches to [...]
INSTAPUTZ (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Feb. 1862 : Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" Mar. 1875 : Henry James, Sr.'s "Is Marriage Holy?" May 1959 : George Kennan on foreign policy Aug. 1963 : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Nov. 2001 : William Langewiesche's "The Crash of EgyptAir 990" July 11, 2008 : Megan McArdle liveblogs the purchase of an iPhone : I imagine this is what it feels like to be a refugee--you...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Showtime and Dexter executive producer Sara Colleton are reteaming for The Exterminators, a drama based on the canceled Vertigo series by Simon Oliver and Tony Moore. Launched in January 2006, the comic centers on Henry James, an ex-con who gets a job at his stepfather’s extermination company, Bug-Bee-Gone. A mystery develops involving Henry’s girlfriend, a high-level [...]
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
???We were, to my sense, the blest group of us, such a company of characters and such a picture of differences … so fused and interlocked, that each of us … pleads for preservation.??? So wrote novelist Henry James of the intense family unit into which he was born.
Judeopundit (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
In a recent New Republic offering "A literary critic reads Obama." Here is the Henry James part: It is hard for any writer, no matter how selective his memory or guarded his words, to conceal himself in his writing. I suspect (I've never met him) that the weaknesses and strengths of Obama's writing reflect those of his character-- a virtuosity that tempts him to be pleased with himself and impatient...
About Literature: Contemporary (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The James family, one of America's most brilliant yet troubled dynasties, gave the world three famous children: one of America's literary giants (Henry James), an early theorist in the field...
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
By David Lambert - All the dramas and desires of late Victorian high society are on display in these vintage adaptations of the writings of Henry James. Romantic tales of love and loss unfold from the... (more)
