Peter Wolfe

A more recent critic, Peter Wolfe , concurred that this novel is narrow in concept and design, and seems to suffer from a lack of self-criticism on the author's part. Wolfe, like Lehmann, saw no...

Published in the US in August, Return to Night was generally well reviewed: Charles Lee of the New York Times termed MRan artist to her finger-tips.Peter Wolfe commented that the book...

Peter Wolfe has noted that the book's probing honesty calls on its readers to question their moral responsibility for an urgent social problem. Because of the nature of the hero's commitment and his lost...

Peter Wolfe commented that this book enlarges both narrative form and the scope of imaginatively perceived experience residing between reader and writer, and that it represented a major artistic advance for MR .

MR was not satisfied with The Bull from the Sea. She thought it was too short, and said she was tiring of the period, even though she wanted to write a sequel for Theseus...

Peter Wolfe and Carolyn Heilbrun both praise MR for brilliantly documented classical settings, and for making modern themes at home in ancient history. Heilbrun comments that Renault seems to have denied her ancient heroines the...