THE ADVENTURES OF MISS BARBARA PYM. By Paula Byrne. William Collins. 704 pages. $34.99. Even the most passionate of Barbara Pym fans may be hard-pressed to explain why they find her writing so ...

There's a passage in Barbara Pym's "Jane and Prudence" that always makes me smile. After Jane Cleveland's husband is installed as vicar in a village church, Jane is introduced to a Miss Doggett, a ...

Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj This propulsive account from journalist Miller (Agent 110) brings to vivid life a little-known ...

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne (William Collins: 2022), 704 pages. In A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym (1990), Hazel Holt, Pym’s longtime friend, recounts that after the ...

The novelist Barbara Pym’s personal diary is not necessarily the best guide to her life, given that she, like so many others, chiefly made entries “when I am depressed, like praying only when one is ...

There’s a passage in Barbara Pym’s “Jane and Prudence” that always makes me smile. After Jane Cleveland’s husband is installed as vicar in a village church, Jane is introduced to a Miss Doggett, a ...

You come to understand what Jackie has at stake and has to lose by committing to this life with the Kennedys. john williams Liz Egan, an editor at the Book Review, is here to talk about Louis Bayard’s ...

1. Perhaps because we live in an era of self-advertisement, it’s such a pleasure to encounter characters like the unassuming, quiet sort created by Barbara Pym. Pym is regarded by some as the ...

It would be easy to assume from Barbara Pym’s Austenesque novels – with their “unmarried sisters, curates and Sunday lunches at the vicarage” – that the woman who wrote them led a “quiet, uneventful ...