BEGINNING AGAIN by Leonard Woolf. 263 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World. $4.95. On a Swedish holiday in 1911, Leonard Woolf was confronted on a remote beach by a naked Swede, who asked, “Can you divorce ...

In 1918, Virginia Woolf saw something special in Cézanne’s “Still Life with Apples” (1877-1878). Despite its small scale and muted hues, the modest canvas unlocked something in Woolf, who responded ...

Our critic A.O. Scott takes apart a scene from “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s 1925 masterpiece, and shows why the book is a must-read now. By A.O. Scott In June, the Book Review Book Club will read ...

The great thing about being an obscure novelist is that it doesn’t matter what you write. “I could do pretty much whatever I wanted,” Michael Cunningham remembers fondly, “because nobody was likely to ...

With Burton and Taylor as stars and a writer and director feuding, adapting the scabrous play wasn’t easy. “Cocktails With George and Martha” pours out the details. Richard Burton, left, and Elizabeth ...

Two previously unknown poems by Virginia Woolf have been found in a library at the University of Texas at Austin. They are said to have been written for her niece and nephew sometime after March 1927.

Virginia Woolf in 1902. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. I’m not sure what I was expecting when I cracked open Virginia Woolf’s The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories, but it certainly wasn’t a giantess ...

Michael Cunningham is possessed by a spirit, one whom a good deal of contemporary writers find it hard to shake: Virginia Woolf walks the hallways of his novels. Her motifs pop their heads in, his ...

When Professor of English Language and Literature Michael Thurston wanted students in his course on the English literary tradition to understand the context in which Virginia Woolf wrote To The ...

In “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” the 1966 movie based on Edward Albee’s incendiary play, a middle-aged married couple turns a late-night gathering for drinks at their home into a game of ...

Nearly a century ago, British author Virginia Woolf is said to have refused to sit for a likeness for the National Portrait Gallery in London because of the absence of paintings of women on the walls.

Now for some news in the world of 20th-century modernist literature. Virginia Woolf, the novelist and essayist author of "Orlando" and "Mrs. Dalloway," was also a poet. That's according to a recent ...