Charles McGrath

Jan 23, 2025 | herbertsmithfreehills.com | Karen Anderson |Charles McGrath |Ana Garmendia |Nicole Sung

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Oct 8, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Charles McGrath

Henry James is Alan Hollinghurst’s favorite writer, and in his native England, Hollinghurst, now 70, has over the years acquired a bit of Jamesian eminence himself. He even gets compared to the Master sometimes. That’s because of the sweep and density of his novels, which span more than a century of political and social change, and his exquisite understanding of the British class system. Readers also point to his beautiful, sonorous sentences.

Oct 4, 2023 | irishcentral.com | Charles McGrath

As a young boy scout in Dublin in the 1970s, one of the highlights of the year was getting the opportunity to sell match programmes at Lansdowne Road for Ireland’s Five Nations rugby fixtures. The main perk of the job was getting to watch the game pitch-side and seeing the legendary Maurice Ignatius ‘Moss’ Keane on the charge for Ireland. Neither rain, biting cold nor defeat could tarnish the occasion.

Aug 7, 2023 | newyorker.com | Charles McGrath

Millhauser had another brush with fame in 1997, when his fourth novel, “Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer,” won the Pulitzer Prize. But his second and third novels—one a portrait of a teen-age romantic and the other a fantasy set in the kingdom of Morpheus, the god of dreams—are not as memorable, and he is best known for his short stories and novellas, like the ones gathered in the new book, in which compression somehow allows his talent its fullest expression.

Jun 8, 2022 | lithub.com | Charles McGrath