Woolf knew why. The patriarchy, she wrote, depends upon man’s “feeling that great numbers of people, half the human race ...

If you’re looking for a memoir with a logical structure, like a beginning, middle and end, Heather Christle’s meditative “In ...

In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s classic novel about one day in the life of an London woman in 1923.

“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself”: So reads one of the great opening lines in British literature, the ...

MRS. WOOLF AND THE SERVANTS By Alison Light Bloomsbury, $30, 400 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN It is amusing that contemporary feminists who think of Virginia Woolf as their patron saint ...

Virginia Woolf was all but born between the covers of a book, grew up and lived there until one day in 1941 when she stepped out to drown herself in the River Ouse. Her father’s first wife was ...

I had met Virginia Woolf before I ever opened her books. I knew what she looked like and what had happened to her; I knew that her books took place inside the human mind and that I had my whole ...

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in the 1966 film “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — the subject of Philip Gefter’s new book, “Cocktails With George and Martha.” ...

I n his 1998 novel The Hours, writer Michael Cunningham imagines Virginia Woolf sitting down to do battle with the draft of a book that will eventually become Mrs Dalloway.. “Can a single day in ...

“My interest in Woolf goes back to my parents,” Gefter says. “It wasn’t that their marriage was unique. It was like everybody else’s. When I was 15, I saw the film and didn’t really ...