On 9 November 1865 the young Henry James published an essay in The Nation titled "Miss Braddon." The occasion was the runaway success of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's fifth novel, Aurora Floyd (1863). James placed Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley's Secret (1862),...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a popular and successful Victorian novelist, mounted an audacious challenge to the codes of literary propriety. A major force in the development of the modern crime novel, she turned conventional morality on its head by describing...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, later Mrs. John Maxwell, is still best known as "the author of Lady Audley's Secret ," to quote the standard publisher's rubric that followed her around on title pages throughout her long career. Although she eventually wrote at l...
Moses und Aron Das Rheingold Die Zauberflte After 13 tumultuous years, Peter Jonas's reign as Intendant of the Bavarian State Opera is coming to an end. His final Munich Opera Festival has begun in style with a new production of Schoenberg's...
Byline: Deborah Kades Business reporter When a group of investors paid $82,000 last year for a calf that had not yet been cloned into existence, the world noticed. And when Infigen, the DeForest company that cloned the animal, introduced that valuable calf...
They're wrong; but don't listen to me. Ali Eteraz is an important blogger: a liberal humanist Muslim who lives in New York. One of the things Eteraz believes, along with Wieseltier and Pollack, is that the Palestinian issue gets way too much attention in...
Evangelist Billy Graham held his final crusade two years ago and has made few public appearances since. But the group charged with carrying on the work of the frail, 88-year-old preacher believes he can still have an impact, through a new $27 million museum that...
