My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. In Arizona, I met a man; and I read Middlemarch. My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. The place had begun to ...

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If Michael Bloomberg were a figure from a nineteenth-century novel, it would be one written by Anthony Trollope, whose depictions of the uneasy intersection of class, money, and politics—especially in ...

Ask some readers their favorite book, and they’ll rattle off a list of five or 10 but cannot narrow their dedication to one book or author. Ask others, and they’ll respond without hesitation with ...

“Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, has largely been immune to the kind of contemporary adaptation visited upon the works of other nineteenth-century writers. The novelist Kay Woodward has turned ...