No literary figure from the previous century has adherents so personally attached to her memory as Jane Austen. We even call her by her first name. You don’t hear a lot about Charlotte, Emily and ...

Although Virgil Thomson’s place in the pantheon of American composers is secure, it is as a music critic that his influence is most obvious. His daily reviews at New York’s Herald Tribune (1940-1954) ...

I imagine it is a terrific stunner to learn that the man you’ve been married to for two decades is actually a woman. From time to time, stories like that make the news, although I’ve yet to find an ...

Before the Oscar-winning Sense and Sensibility, before the ratings-sweeping Pride and Prejudice, there was 1995’s Persuasion. Roger Michell’s version of Jane Austen’s last completed novel is a more ...