Evelyn Toynton

In these essays, Toynton remembers her emigre relatives, some of whom left Germany as soon as Hitler came to power, others only escaped later. Evelyn Toynton's relatives, German-Jewish refugees all, had grown up thinking of themselves as Germans first and Jews second. Her portraits of them, subtly comic when depicting the Germanic traits they retained throughout their lives, take on...

A compelling look at Jackson Pollock's vibrant, quintessentially American art and the turbulent life that gave rise to it Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) not only put American art on the map with his famous "drip paintings," he also served as an inspiration for the character of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire—the role that made Marlon Brando famous....

In this luminous novel about romance and illusion—and what's left of love when they're stripped away—an American Anglophile is drawn into the lives of a disintegrating aristocratic family. After the sudden death of her husband, Annie Devereaux flees to England, site of the nostalgic fantasies her father spun for her before he deserted the family. A chance encounter in London...