Articles by Charles-Adam Foster-Simard
July 15, 2011
Quintessentially English: Middlemarch Between Bristol and Bath 6
Railway tracks get recycled into public pathways, now; in Middlemarch, they aren’t built yet, and exist only in the form of industrial agents who come to plan their route through the fields, to the dismay of the farmers who don’t understand what they want.
March 17, 2011
Henry James and the Joys of Binge Reading 18
It is clear that James is not passé, and never was. He is, in fact, perhaps more relevant than ever; but his works lie in a strange place outside of time, and they were written that way.
July 23, 2010
On My Shelves 7
Sometimes I wish I were that man in the Twilight Zone episode who finds himself in the ruins of a public library, with lots of food and all the time in the world to read all the books he wants.
