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Graham Swift is a spellbinding storyteller whose primary concerns, in his novels, are the experience of loss and the ways in which human beings try to come to terms with loss. Real and symbolic bereavements haunt his work: the death or estrangement of a...

"Waterland" retains the languorous rhythms but little else of Graham Swift's gorgeously written novel, a soulful tale of a middle-aged history professor drifting away on a tide of childhood memories. Set primarily in the tide-laved marshlands of East Anglia, it is a British cousin...

WATERLAND Directed by: Stephen Gyllenhaal Screenplay by: Peter Price (novel: Graham Swift) Starring: Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Grant Warnock, Lina Headey, David Morrissey, Ethan Hawke Playing at: Nickelodeon, Harvard Square Rated: R (violence) There's a lot to like...

An American educator, editor, and critic, Landow frequently writes about Victorian literature and writers as well as on issues regarding hypertext and electronic publishing. In the following essay, he discusses Swift's emphasis on history and storytelling in Waterland, classifying the novel as a late twentieth-century example of fictional autobiography.

An American critic and educator, Higdon is the editor of Conradiana. In the following excerpt, he analyzes Swift's use of closure in Waterland and his other novels.

Wilt is an American educator and nonfiction writer. In the following excerpt, she discusses the conflicts and issues associated with abortion in Waterland.

Analyzes the novel Waterland by Graham Swift. Discusses the theme of history in the story. Examines the questions the story raises about the study of history. Explores the 19th and 20th centuries, the time period in which the story takes place.