Edith Wharton

So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Recommends Mona Awad, Kirthana Ramisetti, Anna Bogutskaya, and More

 
By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong  January 26, 2024
Cities

The Memories of Streets: A Reading List of NYC Books That Capture the City’s Many Sides

By Jonathan Wells  December 14, 2023
What to Watch

The Most Unlikable Woman: On Sofia Coppola’s Stymied Quest to Bring Undine Spragg to Screen

By Emily J. Orlando  November 8, 2023
literary criticism

The Pleasures of a Pessimistic Literary Escape: Jessie Gaynor on Edith Wharton’s The Glimpses of the Moon

By Jessie Gaynor  October 11, 2023
Reading List

Amanda Montei on Seven Novels That Explore Consent and Coercion

By Amanda Montei  October 9, 2023
Craft

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
The Craft of Writing

Beth Nguyen on Taylor Swift, Edith Wharton, and Creating a Double Perspective

By Beth Nguyen   September 22, 2023
What to Watch

30 Years Later, The Age of Innocence Remains Scorsese’s Most Subtle Deconstruction of Misogyny

By Andrew Quintana  September 8, 2023
Literary Biography

“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

By Emily J. Orlando  January 24, 2023
The History of Literature

Does Edith Wharton Hate Us?

By History of Literature  January 17, 2023
Classics

Sofia Coppola in Praise of Edith Wharton’s Beloved Antiheroine, Undine Spragg

By Sofia Coppola  November 15, 2022
Great Adaptations

How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth

By Robert Stinner  August 4, 2022
Classic Literature

“Yoknapatawpha on the Hudson”? On the Novelistic Universe of Edith Wharton

By Krithika Varagur  May 12, 2022
Reading Lists

“Fabulous Outfits, Breathlessly Described.” A Reading List of Literary “It” Girls

By Véronique Hyland  March 16, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Edith Wharton on How to Write a Vivid First Line

By Edith Wharton  March 11, 2022
The Hub

Edith Wharton’s groundbreaking Pulitzer was originally meant for Sinclair Lewis.

By Walker Caplan  January 25, 2022
Lit Century

On the Extremely Pleasurable Experience of Reading Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City

By Lit Century   December 14, 2021
The Hub

Read the letter that began the legendary friendship between Henry James and Edith Wharton.

By Vanessa Willoughby  October 26, 2021
Homes

Famous Writers’ Houses: A Taxonomy

By Emily Temple  October 14, 2021
New York City

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

By Vince Passaro  September 15, 2021
High Society

A Brief History of the New York Times Wedding Announcements

By Cate Doty  May 14, 2021
But Make It Fashion

20 Famous Writers’ Sartorial Trademarks, Ranked

By Emily Temple  April 23, 2021
The Hub

Everything published in “the greatest year for books ever” is now in the public domain.

By Emily Temple  January 4, 2021
The Hub

Read a previously unpublished short story by Edith Wharton.

By Emily Temple  November 9, 2020
Architecture

Inside the Spare and Extravagant Homes of Six Iconic Writers

By Sam Lubell  October 28, 2020
Queer Culture

Outsiders in Love:
A Reading (and Watching) List

By Emily Hashimoto  September 15, 2020
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