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Philip Hensher

Issue June 2003

Lost in Translation

Barton Raffel's English version of Le Rouge et le Noir lacks the essential tone and style of Stendhal… More »

Issue November 2002

A Seventeenth-century Modern

Samuel Pepys did not, in fact, tell us everything… More »

Issue July 2002

As English as God

Ferdinand Mount brilliantly delineates social class… More »

Issue January 2002

Incomparable Naturalism

Only an artificer of the highest skill could have produced so seamless an illusion of reality… More »

Issue September 2001

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… More »

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