literary

Here Mr. Stoppard managed to impart a few slivers of his deep knowledge of literary history while exploring the universal theme of a love that cannot find expression or recompense.

“Coyote” offers intimate shadings on a story that will be familiar to fans of literary biography or anyone who has ever attended a 12-step recovery program.

Her fiction, so alive to sensory experience and the interior struggles of the mind and heart, helped extend the literary tradition of Virginia Woolf, a modernist whom Welty deeply admired.

It’s like the literary equivalent of a TV binge watching structure.

She also brought a new literary sophistication to her lyrics and a textured beauty to her eclectic music.