Entertainment & Arts
The Letters of Lytton Strachey Edited by Paul Levy Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 698 pp., $40
Jan. 1, 2006
Books
It must be an unusual situation when the biography of a biographer, and its history, vies in interest with the subject himself.
June 11, 1995
The famed biographer was a prolific correspondent. It fell to a Kentucky native to edit the piles of letters.
April 16, 2006
Movies
How many kinds of romantic experience really exist, how many strange and unruly paths can the human heart stumble on in its search for happiness?
Nov. 10, 1995
Frances Partridge, a diarist and one of the last surviving associates of the unconventional artistic salon that included authors Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey, died Feb. 5 in London.
Feb. 13, 2004
The typo in the name of the Russian temptress in “Magic Mountain” (“Thomas Mann: A Biography,” June 18) does disservice to Mann’s irony.
July 30, 1995
Four Lives in Paris by Hugh Ford; foreword by Glenway Wescott (North Point: $19.95) Nothing I can write, and I’m afraid it’s pretty hard, can be as hard on “Four Lives in Paris” as the author’s prefatory hope that it will be compared to Lytton Strachey’s “Eminent Victorians.”
Feb. 11, 1987
The Movie: “Carrington” * The Setup: Unconventional relationship of early 20th-Century English painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and distinguished homosexual writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce, pictured above with Thompson). * The Costume Designer: English designer Penny Rose, whose credits include “The Commitments,” “Strapless,” “Shadowlands.” * The Look: One of the guiding free spirits of the Bloomsbury Group, Carrington is a pre-World War II poster girl for fashion renegades.
Bloomsbury/Freud, the Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925.
Dec. 4, 1985
Travel & Experiences
When I visit London, I usually stay in Bloomsbury, slightly north of Piccadilly Circus and the River Thames.
April 2, 2000