Ryder Kessler is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He focuses on British and American novels of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ryder Kessler
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Writing on Public Books
Conversion Sickness
“Nathaniel P. is George Eliot. Nathaniel P. is Tolstoy.” Thus proclaimed a friend of mine in adulation of young novelist Adelle Waldman’s widely acclaimed debut, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. Waldman’s Nate Piven is a writer in the New York of the very recent past, after the city’s center of literary gravity slid across the […]
Shallow Abysses: Edith Wharton, Updated
The year 2012 marks both the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton’s birth and the 75th anniversary of her death. It’s a fact that would appeal to the authoress: her novels are populated by characters for whom each beginning contains the end of what might have been. None exemplifies this doubleness more than The Age of […]
