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Peter Brooks

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  • William and Henry James.

    William and Henry James

    Examining the tumultuous bond between the two brothers.
    by Peter Brooks via The Paris Review on April 1, 2025
  • Henry James; illustration by James McMullan

    Visions of Waste

    "The American Scene" is Henry James’s indictment of what Americans had made of their land.
    by Peter Brooks via New York Review of Books on March 3, 2022
Book
Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
Peter Brooks
2025

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Distorted photo of Henry James with two Henry James faces as ears.

A Mind So Fine: Two Scholars Tackle James

Passing your eyes over those first, electric sentences, it occurs to you that his readers are still catching up.
by Peter Huhne via Cleveland Review of Books on November 14, 2025
Henry James.

Henry James’s American Journey

Why his turn-of-the-century travelogue still resonates.
by Anthony Domestico via The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 28, 2025
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