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D. M. Thomas is widely known for his novel The White Hotel, which quickly rose to the top of the best-seller lists after its American publication in the spring of 1981. Yet, he is also an accomplished poet. In his poetry, as well as in his novels, he has...

The question is: if London is indeed the new cultural capital, hailed for its designer restaurants and bars, pulsating club scene, and burgeoning cafe society, etcetera, where can anyone find a decent modern hotel? This is a city whose hotels are in general...

A mysterious grey-blue sea; a vast, flat sky. A jigsaw of muddy tidal creeks and saltmarsh dotted with little boats; Scolt Head Island in the middle distance. A great flock of dunlin suddenly rising and crossing our view, flashing alternately dark and pale as...

In the following essay, Robertson examines Thomas's effort to reconcile postmodern literary aesthetics, myth, and psychoanalysis with the horrific realities of twentieth-century history and female identity in The White Hotel.

In the following essay, Wymer examines Thomas's incorporation of classical Freudian theory, particularly themes surrounding the concept of the death instinct, in The White Hotel, and mythic aspects of psychoanalysis and opposing elements of Freudian and Jungian psychology in the novel.

In the following essay, Newman provides analysis of recurring symbols, metaphors, and narrative techniques in The White Hotel that underscore the paradoxical dualities of truth, history, and psychic experience. According to Newman, “Through repetition of images we experience no erasure; instead we have memory and revision of memory.”