Edith Wharton

Book Review: Edith Wharton and Michelle Obama — Breaking New Ground for Women

January 2, 2019
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What impressed me most about these two different women is they were both products of an America which values determination and wit and intelligence, as well as opportunity.

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Film Review: Scorsese’s “Age of Innocence” — Re-released

June 22, 2018
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The privilege Edith Wharton’s characters swim in has not disappeared. If anything, it’s expanded farther into the social stratosphere.

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Theater Review: Shakespeare & Co’s “The Wharton Comedies” — Polished Storytelling

August 22, 2017
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Veteran Shakespeare & Company members Corinna May, Diane Prusha, and David Joseph contribute satisfyingly polished performances.

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Film Review: An Obscure But Fascinating Documentary on the Life of Edith Wharton

June 3, 2014
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Artist/scholar Elizabeth Lennard has managed to evoke the breadth of Edith Wharton’s life and work in a relatively short and vivid film.

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Arts Feature: Celebrating The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home in the Berkshires

August 31, 2013
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The fall is an excellent time to visit the Mount, the splendid home author Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires. The leaves have already begun to turn.

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Fuse Books: Edith Wharton’s The Mount Sponsors the First Annual Berkshire Wordfest

July 16, 2010
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With the establishment of Wordfest, a celebration of writing in America with talks, interviews, panels, and book signings, The Mount seems to be coming into its own in ways that make it more alive than ever before. By Roberta Silman When we first built our home in the Berkshires in the early 70s, I remember…

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Arts Feature: Two Grand Berkshire Cottages

September 2, 2009
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By Helen Epstein When you’re sitting in a traffic jam on the Mass Pike or the Taconic Parkway it’s instructive to reflect that one hundred and fifty years ago, it often took less time to get to the Berkshires from Boston or New York City than it does today. The Berkshires were then a major…

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