Arts & Letters Daily (23 Apr 2007): "
In order to understand a story, a critic must pry open the craniums of characters, authors, and narrators to see what makes them tick. A little science can help... more
Children's writer? No. J.R.R. Tolkien's dark tale, The Children of Húrin, has the mythic resonance and grim sense of fate found in Greek tragedy... more
In reading fiction you often come on the idea of a journey, says Hermione Lee: a worn path, a day's walk in a city, a quest, a progress, a journey through time. Among such stories stand her favorites... more