Topic: Henry James

The City of Your Final Destination: movie review

In 'The City of Your Final Destination' a biographer pursues his subject to the steamy lands of Uruguay where he discovers an intricate tangle of family relations.

Desperately seeking Austen

Brooklyn

The quiet, contemplative story of a young woman leaving Ireland for a new life in the Brooklyn of the 1950s.

A Circular Journey

Classic book review: Atonement

The extraordinary range of "Atonement" suggests that there's nothing Ian McEwan can't do.

reCaptcha: How to turn blather into books

Ten seconds of work has digitized libraries, whether the amateur translators know it or not.

Best short stories of 2008

"How Fiction Works"

America's top literary critic shares the secrets of the books he loves.

What to read on a plane

What to read on an airplane

Keeping up with the Jameses

A 'House of Wits' that dazzled even as it disappointed.

Demonyms and our fluid sense of place

Identifiers that used to anchor characteristics to communities may be slipping away in an increasingly unrooted world.

What our next president should read

Literary landmarks you've always wanted to see

The frisky art of Cynthia Ozick

In four lively tales, Ozick takes a playful route to serious points.

The frisky art of Cynthia Ozick

In four lively tales, Ozick takes a playful route to serious points.

Ireland with egg on its face

In a collection of short stories, Roddy Doyle captures the cultural collision between new immigrants and old habits.

New in theaters

'The Orphanage,' a Spanish horror film, delivers more goose bumps than anything Hollywood has served up in years. And "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep," follows the adventures of Crusoe, a gigantic, cuddly creature.