With the publication of her prizewinning fifth novel, Possession: A Romance (1990), A. S. Byatt expanded her audience from a previously small but dedicated one in Britain to a wide, enthusiastic readership on both sides of the Atlantic. A respected criti...

Although thus far she has written only three novels, A. S. Byatt has nonetheless achieved a distinguished place as a person of letters in the last two decades. As novelist, critic, reviewer, editor, and lecturer, Byatt offers in her work an intellectual...

PUBLIC RELATIONS Twenty-five years ago: Ronald Reagan, "the great communicator," was in the White House; Walter Cronkite, an even greater communicator, just left CBS; the prime interest rate reached 21.5 percent; and The New York Times first reported about a strange cancer, Kaposi...

I write in response to Francine Prose's review of The Complete Works of Isaac Babel ["The Bones of the Muzhiks," November 2001]. As a Babel specialist and the book's editor, in addition to the editor of two other books of my father's work,...