The Dark Side

by Hermione Lee

A review of the following books and Last Stories by William Trevor; The Yangtze Valley and An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory by Mrs. J.F. Bishop (Isabella L. Bird), with an introduction by Dervla Murphy; After Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present by Declan Kiberd; Like Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now) an exhibition at the Met Breuer, New York City, March 21–July 22, 2018

165 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 22, 2018

About the author

Hermione Lee grew up in London and was educated at Oxford. She began her academic career as a lecturer at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va (Instructor, 1970-1971) and at Liverpool University (Lecturer, 1971-1977). She taught at the University of York from 1977, where over twenty years she was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of English Literature. From 1998-2008 she was the Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literature and Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. In 2008 Lee was elected President of Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Lee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's and St Cross Colleges, Oxford. She has Honorary Doctorates from Liverpool and York Universities. In 2003 she was made a Commander of the British Empire for Services to Literature.