Charlotte Mary Yonge may be "placed" in literary history as the leading novelist of that Anglo-Catholic revival known as Tractarianism, or the Oxford Movement; but this classification cannot explain why her domestic novels have always been enjoyed by man...
To say that Charlotte Mary Yonge's writings were designed to illustrate Tractarian principles at work in daily life is to convey a wholly misleading suggestion of dullness and dogmatism. In fact, Yonge's popularity in her own day (and among modern devote...
The debate in the media and in the military about the propriety of publishing the "grisly photos" of Uday and Qusay Hussein [Style, July 25] exposed an irony in our nation's sensibility toward war and its consequences. The ancient Greeks have something to...
Last year we did an item about Lewis Gannett, the waiter-writer who served up meals at the Harvest in Harvard Square before signing a deal with Random House. His novel, "The Living One," will be out in February, and Gannett wants to make sure...
