Jeffrey Meyers

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This year is the centenary of T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926), as great a book as any that ever won t...

I knew my brilliant friend Fred Crews (1933- 2024) from my graduate school years in Berkeley in 1960 to our sudden bi...

In 1808 the French army, triumphant in much of Europe, began the Peninsular War by invading Spain, where Napoleon ins...

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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) had many self-destructive and tragic love affairs. In New Zealand, after the young musician Tom Trowell had rejected her, the teenaged Mansfield rebounded to his twin brother Garnet. He got her pregnant and abandoned her, and all her love affairs were attempts to compensate for this cruel rejection. She also had two youthful liaisons with women: the beautiful Maori, Maata, and her older friend Edie Bendall. Romantic, impulsive and reckless in England, she was eager to sleep with any man who caught her fancy and liked to have two rivals fighting for her favors. Her early lovers included, besides Garnet, the Polish Florian Sobieniowski, who returned to haunt her and blackmailed her to conceal her shameful letters; the

The title of Diane Arbus’s Sanctum Sanctorum (Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and David Zwirner Books, New York, 86...

Member ratings Gather from the air a live tradition. Ezra Pound, Cantos , LXXXI In “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919), T.

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To determine the 100 “Best Novels of All Time,” the Guardian asked 170 novelists, critics and academics to rank their...