THE SHIPWRECKED (244 pp.)—Graham Greene—Viking ($3). In 1935 a little-known English writer published his seventh novel, England Made Me. The critics brushed it off with mild praise; a writer whose ...

“He is very agreeable,” wrote a baroness in Belgium, introducing Graham Greene to a doctor running a leper colony in the Congo, but “very problematic.” Indeed so. The love of ambiguity and restless ...

In the firmament of contemporary international letters, there are a few select names which seem to trail clouds of glory everywhere they go. For literate folk around the world—even for literate folk ...

Bruce Bawer’s criticism is generally a pleasure to read. His analysis is perspicacious, thorough, and rational. However, he seems to have seriously gone amiss in his recent examination of Graham ...

Kaliane Bradley is the author of “The Ministry of Time,” the best-selling debut novel that was chosen for Good Morning America Book Club. A British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London, Bradley ...

When Arthur starts researching his new book about trees, he meets Phil, a hugely helpful resource, who becomes a good friend. Then Arthur meets Phil’s wife, Sarah and the two fall deeply in love. “God ...