My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. In Arizona, I met a man; and I read Middlemarch. My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. The place had begun to ...

“Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, has largely been immune to the kind of contemporary adaptation visited upon the works of other nineteenth-century writers. The novelist Kay Woodward has turned ...

George Eliot’s most famous novel gives a detailed description of life in a provincial town, but its main subject is a close study of two unhappy marriages. Published in 1871-72 and set in 1829-32, ...

This week in the magazine, Rebecca Mead writes about George Eliot’s “Middlemarch.” (Subscribers can read the full text; others can buy access to the issue via the digital edition.) On the Book Bench, ...

It's been too long since I've posted on my explorations. Frankly, I haven't been sure what, precisely, to say. Here is a really ragged attempt. George Eliot's prose have a kind of physicality, and ...