A MAN OF PARTS By David Lodge 436 pp. Viking. $26.95. The stupefyingly prolific H. G. Wells published more than a hundred books and slept with ''well over a hundred women in his lifetime.'' But who's counting? David Lodge, that's who. Some of Wells's works, including the briskly entertaining science fiction classics ''The Time Machine'' and ''The...
WE OTHERS New and Selected Stories By Steven Millhauser 387 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $27.95. Among the various impostures of book reviewing, the suggestion that a book is encountered in a vacuum of preconceptions is one that's bound to be debunked when faced with the phrase ''New and Selected Stories.'' Presented with a career capstone on behalf of a...
FOREIGN BODIES By Cynthia Ozick 255 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $26 Cynthia Ozick's longstanding and perceptive enthrallment with Henry James once made her declare the ''pivotal truth'' of his last novels to be ''not that he chooses to tell too little . . . but that he knows too much, and much more than we, or he, can possibly take in.'' Among...
Henry James (15. april 1843 – 28. februar 1916) var en amerikanskfødt britisk forfatter. Han tilbragte store dele af sit liv i Europa og blev britisk statsborger kort før sin død. Han var bror til filosoffen og psykologen William James.