The complete online text of A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. Lucas.

E. V. Lucas was taught to swim by George Bernard Shaw, heard James Barrie reading Peter Pan while it was still in manuscript, and knew virtually everyone in the London literary and publishing worlds in the first third of the twentieth century. He was a p...

Though he was an immensely prolific writer, the range of E. V. Lucas's sensibility was actually rather narrow. His work as an essayist and a novelist is charming but lightweight; his essays perhaps mark the end of the bellelettristic tradition in England...

For nearly fifty years E. V. Lucas was one of the most accomplished and respected literary men in London. As an author of books, a journalist, an editor, a bookman, and a publisher's reader, he knew nearly all of the leading English writers of his time,...

THE WANDERER By Dmitry Lipkin Flea Theater 41 White Street 212.414.7773 Lipkin's fantasies collide with the Russian Brighton Beach NOTHING IS ELUCIDATED Magic realism can be daunting. Even the most experienced literary practitioners have moments when they...

FLORENCE None of the three operas staged during this year's Maggio Musicale boasted an ideal cast, but the inaugural production, Beethoven's Fidelio (seen at the Teatro Comunale on May 21), proved memorable nonetheless, thanks to conductor Paavo Jarvi's ability to invest every bar...