The soul of Hogarth has migrated into the body of Dickens.

'Well, every one for himself, and Providence for us all--as the elephant said when he danced among the chickens.'

There is no contemporary English writer whose works are read so generally through the whole house, who can give pleasure to the servants as well as to the mist…

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquac…

What is there in Paradise Lost to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?

Lolita is one of our finest American novels, a triumph of style and vision, an unforgettable work, Nabokov's best (though not most characteristic) work, a wedd…