In work that spans a half-century, James Hanley depicts situations and characters that reflect the complexity of modern life. His characters, many of whom are from the lower classes, face isolation an...
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Critical Essay by Ruth Mathewson
James Hanley has been discovered and rediscovered for almost half a century. When his last book came out in 1973, Time magazine, calling him "one of the most c...
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Critical Essay by Mary Hope
'The worst thing is when nothing, absolutely nothing happens to a person in a whole lifetime. Just think of that.' Enduring, or escaping from such a nothing ...
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Critical Essay by Laura Mathews
The Welsh Sonata is a romantic, lyrical tale about a missing man, whose inexplicable departure from a tiny, locked-in village haunts the conscience of many and draws o...
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Critical Essay by Victoria Glendinning
[The] idea of traveling—in the mind, over the mountains, or back in time—is central to ["The Welsh Sonata" and "A Kingdom�...
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Critical Essay by Desmond Graham
[James Hanley] is an example of a novelist who has often aimed at a poetic type of fiction, restricting the social range of his work in his quest for intensity and si...
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James Hanley
Critical Essay by Ruth Mathewson
