Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer, Leonard Bernstein. In his new book, “Eminent Jews,” David Denby profiles the rich, messy lives of four immensely talented American Jews who threw off the cons ...

Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer By David Denby Henry Holt, 40o pages, $32 When Lytton Strachey wrote his Eminent Victorians in 1918, the Victorian period was clearly finished.

Lytton Strachey picked his moment to make sport of Thomas Arnold and other Victorians. Tate Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY Lytton Strachey made up the business about Thomas Arnold having short ...

The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and author Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in a World War I England of cottages and countryside. Although ...

The circle of English artists, writers, and intellectuals who made up the Bloomsbury Group are well-known for their proudly modern attitudes to feminism and sexuality, which flew in the face of ...

Bloomsbury, Strachey, modernism, ethics, literature, and radio. Bloomsbury Group, Lytton Strachey, modernist literature, ethical philosophy, and queer theory. Todd Avery specializes in British ...

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of biographical writing by portraying his subjects with warts and all.