John Clare: Faithful Are the Wounds Jeffrey Meyers In an appreciative essay of 1992, Seamus Heaney notes the principal events in the life of John…
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Jeffrey Meyers, FRSL, had thirty-four books translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway came out with LSU Press in November 2025. The Biographer’s Quest appeared with Mercer University Press in April 2026.
Sir Thomas Browne and The Tender Filaments of Life by Jeffrey Meyers Thomas Browne (1605-82), born in London the son of a silk merchant, was…
Paul Klee: The Walking Line Jeffrey Meyers In the 1960s a clever advertisement said, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish…
John le Carré and Tom Stoppard: A Friendship Jeffrey Meyers John le Carré (whom I call LC), born in Poole, Dorset in 1931 and educated…
My Worst Lodgings Jeffrey Meyers Hotels range from luxurious to decrepit, from comical in Fawlty Towers to horrific at the Bates Hotel in Psycho. Centers…
The Titans Jeffrey Meyers William Wallace. Michelangelo & Titian: A Tale of Rivalry and Genius. Princeton UP, 2026, 198p, $35. 48 color plates, 49 black-and-white.…
Chaim Soutine: Tormented Artist Jeffrey Meyers Change and decay in all around I see. “Abide with Me” (1847) Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), the tenth of eleven…
Terribly Hush-Hush Review by Jeffrey Meyers Robert Verkaik. The Writer and the Traitor: Graham Greene, Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal. London: Headline Wellbeck, 365p,…
The Living Cosmos Jeffrey Meyers D.H. Lawrence’s Etruscan Places (posthumously published in 1932), propelled me to the tombs carved out of volcanic rock. The dying…
St. Matthew Passion by Jeffrey Meyers Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s St. Matthew Passion (Medford, MA.: Arrowsmith, 2024, 93p, $18 pb) is her first book since 2010. It’s…
Humbert’s Name in Lolita by Jeffrey Meyers Nomen est omen (the name is a clue) Young nymphets appeared before Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) in the photography…
Joyce’s Politics by Jeffrey Meyers Frank Callanan (1956-2021) was a learned Irish barrister and Joyce scholar, but during his 20 long years of writing James Joyce:…
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