As the poet has it, we are born strangers and afraid in a world we never made and, he might have added, spend a large part of our lives negotiating that original aloneness. Most of us make some ...

The best biographies marry the talents of a perceptive biographer and a complicated subject. In Miranda Seymour's new biography of British writer Jean Rhys, readers will find a perfect match. Seymour ...

Caryl Phillips' new novel, set in the waning years of the British Empire, follows the perpetually alienated Rhys from her birthplace in the West... Caryl Phillips' latest novel, based on the troubled ...

In June 1931, in a letter to her friend and fellow writer Evelyn Scott, Jean Rhys spelled out a recurring, and apparently insoluble, problem that she had with publishers: “I am always being told that ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. That old woman in Plante’s disturbing memoir is not to be brushed away. Far too vivid in her rages as well as her ...

Jean Rhys’s first four novels are peopled with, and powered by, sharply depicted women dealing with their unfair share of hard knocks in a hostile world. There is Marya in “Quartet” (1928), who loses ...

The late Dominica-born writer Jean Rhys, best known for her novel “Wide Sargasso Sea” — a creatively daring, strongly feminist, and brazenly anti-colonial counter to Charlotte Brontë's “Jane Eyre” — ...

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Mendo: How an Unlikely Group of Rebels Turned Cannabis into California’s Cash Crop Even as “we are staring down the end of all things,” there is still inspiration to be found in “ancient texts,” ...

Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to present Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, celebrating the Dominican-born British writer Jean Rhys (b. 1890 in Roseau, Dominica, d. 1979 in Devon, ...

Mendo: How an Unlikely Group of Rebels Turned Cannabis into California’s Cash Crop Even as “we are staring down the end of all things,” there is still inspiration to be found in “ancient texts,” ...