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 ...

Trees that witnessed key moments in history, provided inspiration to writers and played supporting roles onscreen made this ...

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 ...

It is amusing that contemporary feminists who think of Virginia Woolf as their patron saint are usually shocked when they hear her recorded voice.

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 ...

A must-read new book explores how Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? invented modern marriage.

VIRGINIA WOOLF—David Daiches—New Directions ($1.50). For the late, probably great Virginia Woolf, Chicago University's David Daiches has written a helpful set of program notes for lay ...

British writer Virginia Woolf said: "There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand ...