How should one read a book? Is it better to do it on paper or on a screen? Sitting on a couch or lying in a hammock? Fortified by tea or bourbon—or both? When it comes to absorbing literature, there ...

In the introduction to “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway,” Merve Emre describes Virginia Woolf as the hostess of her 1925 modernist classic: flitting from room to room, introducing us to each of her ...

On Sunday, literary types the world over donned blazers, sported colored glasses, and drank pints of Guinness for Bloomsday, a celebration of James Joyce’s allusion-laden epic Ulysses. At once utterly ...

University of Tasmania provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. I’m at the park with my daughter, who is jumping in and out of puddles, splashing, shrieking at me (Mum! Look what I can do!

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Virginia Woolf’s iconic modernist novel “Mrs. Dalloway” was published 85 ...

Before working on “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway” (Liveright), Merve Emre didn’t consider herself a Virginia Woolf devotee. “I teach her novels in my 20th-century literature class,” she said. “But if I ...

"What a lark! What a plunge!" Composer-lyricist John Coyne and librettist Brandon Adam are collaborating on a musical adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's classic novel about uncertainty, ...

Before Woolf settled on the unique perspective for her modernist masterpiece, she had a more expansive, though traditional, book in mind — “The Hours.” By Lauren Christensen “I am the only woman in ...

London: Hogarth Press, 1925. Dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. The portrayal of Virginia Woolf as a virginal ice-maiden in some of the biographies is counterbalanced by the sensuality of her ...

Today marks the 136th birthday of iconic writer Virginia Woolf. To honor Woolf, Google commissioned London-based artist Louise Pomeroy to design the image now being shared on Google’s US home page and ...

Mrs. Dalloway hosts tonight! You’re invited to the soiree of the century: a new musical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel. It is 1923 and the pandemic and WWI have ravaged Europe, but ...