Rebecca Mead plonks herself down in a comfortable seat and places her things on the table in front of her. Among them is a paperback copy of George Eliot's Middlemarch, festooned with the fluttery ...

The staff writer revisits an old favorite. I’ve been on a George Eliot kick: I’ve just finished re-re-reading “Middlemarch”; have been reading Eliot’s journals (filled with alarming accounts of ...

Noted dachshundist and novel-blurber Gary Shteyngart has finished reading “Middlemarch,” the 800-page novel by George Eliot. The news, revealed late last week, was greeted with astonishment and ...

Everyone has a list of unread books that weighs on her conscience each passing year that it remains unchanged. At the top of mine was “Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, a classic that I managed to put ...

“Certain men are constitutionally incapable of reading one of the greatest novels ever written,” says the author, whose new novel is “Commitment.” Credit...Rebecca Clarke Supported by On my night ...

I recently finished rereading George Eliot’s Middlemarch, which all students at our college read during their junior year, and it has reminded me of one reason such books are indispensable to liberal ...

When Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch at 17 it spoke to her yearning for escape; in her 20s it was a warning against a bad marriage; and in middle age Eliot's experience as a stepmother echoed her own ...