‘Hardy Women’ Review: Before There Was Tess
The novelist Thomas Hardy’s work often turned on portrayals of women who defied the conventions of their time. The women in ...
A revealing portrait of novelist Thomas Hardy as a womanizer
In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and ...
Haruki Murakami repeats himself (on purpose) in his new novel
The City and Its Uncertain Walls” is set in a magical place that figured heavily in an earlier work by the popular Japanese ...
‘The City and Its Uncertain Walls’ Review: Murakami’s Time Machine
The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami returns to a world he first imagined as a young writer, in a new story of dreams and ...