Fear no more the heat o’ the sun,
Nor the furious winter’s rages;
Our Mrs Dalloway series rolls on into 2026 with critic extraordinaire Nicole Gantz joining the show to bring her expertise and lens to the novel. Nicole focuses on the book’s linguistic surface and the various ways in which Woolf structures her architecture to offer an insightful look at what’s happening compositionally.
This post is Part One of our conversation, which abruptly ends upon my making an excellent Hatchards joke. Part Two will be out next week, picking up right where we left off, and we’ve a Part Three planned with another special guest in the coming weeks. I hope you enjoy this conversation, and in the meantime—stay critical.
Merci !
