British literature

Even Meryl Streep Can’t Save ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ from Postmodern Pretense

Even Meryl Streep Can’t Save ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ from Postmodern Pretense

The French Lieutenant’s Woman has not aged well, and this has to do with the failure of postmodernism and poststructuralism to contribute anything useful to popular culture.

Missed Connections: Tom McCarthy’s ‘Men in Space’

‘A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman’ Is Poetic and Contemplative Examination of Intimate Worlds