The growing public acceptance of Edith Wharton as an American classic, accompanied as it has been in recent years with a spate of life studies and the restoration in Lenox, Mass., of her beautiful ...
In 1911, Edith Wharton found herself stuck at the Belmont Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Her life was stagnant. She was at the beginning of her divorce from Teddy Wharton. They were at the Belmont, ...
A new, sparkly, modernized adaptation of “The Buccaneers” was released on Nov. 8 on Apple TV+ and met with mostly positive reviews — it received a score of 76% on Rotten Tomatoes. The series, based on ...
In the opening pages of “The Buccaneers,” Edith Wharton’s novel about American heiresses of the 1870s looking to marry Englishmen with titles, Mrs. St. George, the mother of the central character, ...
To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club on Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, click the arrow on the player below. You can also download the audio file here, or click ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: Apple TV+‘s latest delightfully anachronistic period drama is a revolutionary new take on Edith Wharton’s final, unfinished novel, The Buccaneers. The story follows a ...
Toni Bentley joined the New York City Ballet when she was 17 and began dancing for and observing the genius of George Balanchine. That experience has inspired a number of her books, including her most ...