Philip Hensher
Recent articles by Philip Hensher
Lost in Translation
Barton Raffel's English version of Le Rouge et le Noir lacks the essential tone and style of Stendhal.
A Seventeenth-century Modern
Samuel Pepys did not, in fact, tell us everything.
As English as God
Ferdinand Mount brilliantly delineates social class.
Incomparable Naturalism
Only an artificer of the highest skill could have produced so seamless an illusion of reality.
The Country and the City
With her inclusion in The Library of America, the neglected novelist Dawn Powell has finally achieved literary canonization. Our critic assesses the contrasting worlds of Powell's fiction.