HERSELF SURPRISED (275 pp.)—Joyce Cary—Harper ($3). Joyce Gary is an Irish-born and English-educated novelist whose work deserves to be more widely read than it is. Unlike so many of his ...

The first time I met Billie Piper, I was left feeling that I owed her an apology. She was heavily pregnant at the time, by husband, actor Laurence Fox, we got chatting about her birth options and I ...

Moll Flanders, that sexy wench from 18th-century England, earns another rebirth as PBS' "Masterpiece Theater" begins its second quarter-century. Alex Kingston stars in the Daniel Defoe classic, which ...

Review - Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders, by Siân Rees ASK any TV dramatist for a thumbnail sketch of adventuress Moll Flanders and the chances are the answer will include a heaving cleavage ...

No more saucy winks for Defoe's heroine. You may never have read Moll Flanders, but chances are you've got a pretty good idea what it's about. Moll – her person, her story – has come to stand as a ...