As novelist Prose notes in her perceptive introduction, Woolf demonstrates a huge affection for her hometown—like her heroine Clarissa Dalloway, whose stream-of ...

BEGINNING AGAIN by Leonard Woolf. 263 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World. $4.95. On a Swedish holiday in 1911, Leonard Woolf was confronted on a remote beach by a naked Swede, who asked, “Can you divorce ...

Our critic A.O. Scott takes apart a scene from “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s 1925 masterpiece, and shows why the book is a must-read now. By A.O. Scott In June, the Book Review Book Club will read ...

In the introduction to “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway,” Merve Emre describes Virginia Woolf as the hostess of her 1925 modernist classic: flitting from room to room, introducing us to each of her ...

The great thing about being an obscure novelist is that it doesn’t matter what you write. “I could do pretty much whatever I wanted,” Michael Cunningham remembers fondly, “because nobody was likely to ...

Virginia Woolf in 1902. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. I’m not sure what I was expecting when I cracked open Virginia Woolf’s The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories, but it certainly wasn’t a giantess ...

With Burton and Taylor as stars and a writer and director feuding, adapting the scabrous play wasn’t easy. “Cocktails With George and Martha” pours out the details. Richard Burton, left, and Elizabeth ...

When Professor of English Language and Literature Michael Thurston wanted students in his course on the English literary tradition to understand the context in which Virginia Woolf wrote To The ...

How should one read a book? Is it better to do it on paper or on a screen? Sitting on a couch or lying in a hammock? Fortified by tea or bourbon—or both? When it comes to absorbing literature, there ...

A remarkable literary discovery has thrilled readers of the late, great British writer Virginia Woolf. More than 80 years after her death, a new book has been published this week. It's a collection of ...