Meg Wolitzer's latest novel is The Interestings. I have to admit that the first time I tried to read Middlemarch by George Eliot, I ended up putting it aside after only 20 pages. My teenage self, ...

“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.” George Eliot wrote those sentences in her 1872 masterpiece, Middlemarch, an examination of marriage ...

When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we ...

Rebecca Mead, a New Yorker writer, first read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” at age 17, when she was an ambitious schoolgirl studying for entrance exams to Oxford. She recalls identifying completely ...

If you are like me, you have friends with whom you love to talk about books. Each gets excited about something he recently read and wants to share this experience with you. Often, you know how they ...