Capable of Honor is the third book in a tetralogy that Drury launched with his successful, widely read Advise and Consent. It lacks the spellbinding novelty of that first book. It is laden with ...

These 8 books sound innocent, poetic, or even romantic until you open them and realize the title was the biggest lie. Nothing ...

As Henry James observed of Disareli’s Lothair in 1870, there will often be a book everyone seems to be reading while on vacation. Lothair was not just a melodramatic potboiler, but also grappled ...

But this was something different: heaps of melodramatic stories ... yet it feels less like a detour from her previous books than their culmination. When it was released, Rossner was forty-eight ...

It was also a confrontation with melodrama, the basic aesthetic of Meyerbeer’s best work and a mode of thinking and understanding the world that governed much of 19th century fiction and drama.