The complete online text of A Wanderer in Holland 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,...

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans, according to a lullaby by John Lennon. Discomfort is what happens to you when you listen to Richard Dreyfuss sing that lullaby in "Mr. Holland's Opus," replacing the name of Lennon's son...

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...