A Natural Poet
December 22, 2003 ·
Susan Balee, Magazine, Books and Arts
John Clare
The Butler Didn't Do It
February 11, 2002 ·
Susan Balee, Magazine, Books and Arts
Death at the Priory Sex, Love and Murder in Victorian England by James Ruddick Atlantic Monthly, 224 pp., $24 In Emily Eden's popular 1859 novel "The Semi-Detached House," old Mrs. Hopkinson observes, "I like a good murder that can't be found out; that is, of course, it is very shocking, but I like…
Our Essays, Our Selves
October 22, 2001 ·
Susan Balee, Magazine, Books and Arts
The Best American Essays 2001 edited by Kathleen Norrisand Robert Atwan Houghton Mifflin, 400 pp., $13 TO READ "THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2001," the new collection of two dozen essays edited by Kathleen Norris and Robert Atwan, is to realize two things. The first is that writers in America today…