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Articles Written by: CHRISTOPHER BENFEY
“Try always,” says the worldly Cardinal Wolsey in “Wolf Hall,” Hilary Mantel’s fictional portrait of Henry VIII’s turbulent court, “to find out what people wear under their clothes.” Katherine of Aragon, the queen who can’t produce an heir, wears a ...
From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,
The New York Times,
30 Oct 2009
Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
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From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,
Slate,
30 Sep 2009
In this big two-hearted river of a book, the twin energies of scientific curiosity and poetic invention pulsate on every page. Richard Holmes, the pre-eminent biographer of the Romantic generation and the author of intensely intimate lives of Shelley ...
From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,
The New York Times,
17 Jul 2009
iterary biography of the Anglo-American variety has its roots in Samuel Johnson’s terse lives of the English poets and James Boswell’s garrulous life of Johnson. Curiosity about the tangled loves of the Romantic generation of Byron and the Shelleys ...
From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,
The New York Times,
10 Jul 2009
'I am one of those people who could die for his religion sooner than take a bath for it," Flannery O'Connor wrote during the spring of 1958, after her rich Savannah cousin Katie Semmes had paid for a pilgrimage to the healing waters of Lourdes for ...
From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,
The New Republic,
28 May 2009
Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
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From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,
Slate,
27 May 2009
THE 14 noirish narratives of novelist Joyce Carol Oates, gathered with a title story that might be summarized as "Dear Husband, I'm afraid I've killed the kids," imply that American family life, especially of the upscale white suburban variety, is no ...
From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,
Shanghai Daily,
11 Apr 2009
What does Joyce Carol Oates, a novelist, poet and critic of Scheherazade-like versatility, bring to the claustrophobic confines of the short story? These 14 noirish narratives, gathered with a title story that might be summarized as “Dear Husband, I’m ...
From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,
The New York Times,
3 Apr 2009
CHARLES Darwin, a 22-year-old dropout from medical school who subsequently considered becoming a priest, boarded the Beagle in late 1831 and spent five years on the ship, traveling the world and collecting natural specimens.
Despite its cuddly name, ...
From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,
Shanghai Daily,
7 Feb 2009
Charles Darwin, a 22-year-old dropout from medical school who subsequently considered becoming a priest, boarded the Beagle in late 1831 and spent five years on the ship, traveling the world and collecting natural specimens.
Two arresting new books, ...
