E.M. Forster was a virgin at 37, and his tortuous path toward sexual maturity is a main plotline of "Arctic Summer," Damon Galgut's brilliant biographical novel. Its epigraph quotes Forster at age 74: ...

Has any major novelist had a career as lopsided as E. M. Forster’s? Between 1905 and 1910, the year that his masterful study of manners “Howards End” became a best-seller, Forster—who was known to ...

The novelist E.M. Forster lived to the great old age of 91, but by the cultural calendar, his life was even longer. He was born in the starchy days of high-collar Victorian England and died in the Age ...

In 1943, the critic Lionel Trilling wrote a book about the work of E. M. Forster without knowing that the novelist was homosexual. Trilling had enough to write about, including the drama in Forster’s ...