Archive for: Henry Miller

Filling Out Life’s Circumference: Anaïs Nin’s Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s

Filling Out Life’s Circumference: Anaïs Nin’s Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s

Nin’s fiction promoted a balance between external reality and the imaginative life.

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Brassaï: A Perspective Knowing

Brassaï: A Perspective Knowing

The photographs leave one with a greater objectivity, a more complete concept of the moment depicted.

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Raising a Glass to Eddie Campbell’s <em>Alec</em>

Raising a Glass to Eddie Campbell’s Alec

No other cartoonist has made such accomplished use of the personal-essay narrative.

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Thoughts on Henry Miller and Surrealism

Thoughts on Henry Miller and Surrealism

One of the most striking aspects of Miller’s writing, what gives it much of its expanse and lift, is his use of digression; his flights of rhetoric stick in the mind long after his books’ incidents and characters fade away.

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