This synopsis might seem dull as dishwater. Yet, “Mrs. Dalloway” isn’t a conventional or superficial novel and neither Clarissa nor the other characters are shallow or insignificant. Woolf, influenced ...

In the first days of the stay-in-place orders made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic, anxious variations on one of the most famous openings in English literature began cropping up on Twitter.

I’m at the park with my daughter, who is jumping in and out of puddles, splashing, shrieking at me (Mum! Look what I can do!), as I read frantically, taking one-handed notes on my phone (Mum! Look at ...