Lively, complex, and inclined to shock, Guggenheim (1898–1979), the modern art collector, emerges as the embodiment of the age in Prose’s (Lovers at the Chameleon Club) judicious biography. Leaning ...

It is official. Now with two Man Booker prizes to her name, Hilary Mantel is the greatest English prose writer publishing today. And before you start contradicting me in the comment thread, I'm not ...

IT IS usually dangerous for anyone whose gift is one art to attempt to follow another. The pitfalls of following poetry when your gift is prose are obvious enough to ...

On The Evolution of English Prose, 1700–1800: Style, Politeness and Print Culture, by Carey McIntosh. Modern English prose is usually dated from the Restoration of the Stuarts in 1660. However, so ...