Perhaps every novelist harbors a monster at heart, an irrepressible and utterly irresponsible fantasist, not to mention a born and ingenious liar, without which all her art would go for naught.Angel, at any rate, is the story of such ...

On a rainy Sunday in January, the widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are eccentric and curious. They fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reap...

The mid-twentieth century British novelist Elizabeth Taylor numbered among her admirers Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton- Burnett, and Kingsley Amis. She also regularly published stories in The New Yorker for close to two decades. For all...