The Library of America recently brought out the sixth and final volume in its series of Henry James reprints. The latest gathers the final novels: The Ambassadors (1903), The Golden Bowl (1904), and ...

In his short story “The Next Time,” Henry James has his narrator, a literary critic, remark of the admirers of a novelist named Ray Limbert: “We are a numerous band, partakers of the same repose, who ...

On view from October 19, 2017 through January 21, 2018, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will host the Henry James and American Painting exhibition to explore how the artist’s literary works ...

One mark of a masterpiece is that it doesn’t stay where you left it last. When I read Henry James’s novel “The Portrait of a Lady” for the first time, just after college, I felt the full pathos of ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- "I had done a few things and earned a few pence ... ." So begins the Henry James short story "The Figure in the Carpet," originally penned in 1896. After reading this story recently, ...

When James began the first of the notebooks with his sketch of Confidence, he had completed more than twelve years of apprenticeship to his craft. Daisy Miller had come out in the Cornhill Magazine ...

To mark the centenary of Henry James's death, Frances Wilson celebrates the enigmatic life and talents of the novelist known as The Master “I see ghosts everywhere”, Henry James once said. The author ...

In 1911, a Boston publisher called Gorham Press brought out a small scarlet-bound book with gilt-edged pages. The title was written in gold lettering on the cover: “The Henry James Year Book.” Inside ...

In his first novel, The James Boys, humorist Richard Liebmann-Smith posits what life would have been like if real-life brothers Henry and William James (the novelist and the philosopher) had been the ...