Virginia Woolf

Celebrate the solar eclipse with some of the best and worst ellipses in literature (and life).

 
By James Folta  April 4, 2024
Shopping

Lost in the Supermarket: On the Literature of Shopping

By Anna Smaill  March 25, 2024
Women Writers

What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

By Ramie Targoff  March 13, 2024
Motherhood

A Subterranean Kinship: Rachel Lyon and Leslie Jamison on Writing Separate But Related Books

By Leslie Jamison  March 6, 2024
On Writing

Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

By William Maxwell  January 26, 2024
Reckonings

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

By Danell Jones  January 25, 2024
What to Watch

The 15 Best Literary Adaptations of 2023

By Literary Hub  December 22, 2023
In Conversation

Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

By Rumena Bužarovska  December 13, 2023
Writing Women

Writing “Women of a Certain Age.” A Roundtable on Crafting Older Female Characters in Fiction

By Lisa Gornick  November 27, 2023
Rare Books

Beth Kephart on the Eternal Hope of Rare Books

By Beth Kephart  November 16, 2023
What to Watch

What to Read Before and After Seeing Orlando, My Political Biography

By Literary Hub  November 1, 2023
What to Watch

Highs and Lows from the New York Film Festival’s Literary Fare

By Elissa Suh  October 19, 2023
What to Watch

Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

By Hannah Bonner  August 3, 2023
The Hub

An annotated copy of Virginia Woolf’s difficult debut novel shows her evolution in action.

By Janet Manley  July 24, 2023
Creativity

What Completism Can Teach Us About the Creative Process

By Rhian Sasseen  July 24, 2023
In Conversation

Emily Simon on Language Games, Perspective, and Inheriting a Tradition of Complaining

By Ross Simonini  May 25, 2023
On Translation

How Annie Ernaux Captures the Spirit of Her Era Through Its Big-Box Stores

By Literary Hub  April 19, 2023
Cocktails

Cocktails in Honor of Two Literary Greats: Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston

By Jennifer Croll  April 13, 2023
History of Literature

Is Persuasion the Perfect Novel?

By History of Literature  April 11, 2023
Reading Lists

On Borders Concrete and Intangible: A Reading List of the Inbetween

By Fatin Abbas  March 2, 2023
Modernism

A Modernist’s Modernist: On the Brilliance—and Influence—of Katherine Mansfield

By Kirsty Gunn  January 23, 2023
The Hub

Here are the books that just entered the public domain.

By Emily Temple  January 3, 2023
new books tuesday

12 new books to kick off your 2023 reading.

By Katie Yee  January 3, 2023
Narrative

Dear Blank Space: A Literacy Narrative

By Jennifer S. Cheng  December 6, 2022
Literary History

How Virginia Woolf Shunned—and Then Embraced—T.S. Eliot

By Lyndall Gordon  November 23, 2022
The Hub

You can finally take a selfie with a full-size statue of Virginia Woolf.

By Emily Temple  November 16, 2022
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