Elizabeth Taylor

Analysis of Elizabeth Taylor’s The Devastating Boys

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 10, 2022

Published in McCall’s magazine in May 1966, Elizabeth Taylor’s “The Devastating Boys” is a witty, poignant depiction of the change that occurs in the marriage of Harold, a self-involved Oxford archeology professor, and his wife Laura, when two black children… Read More ›

Analysis of Elizabeth Taylor’s The Blush

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on June 13, 2022

First published in the New Yorker and collected in The Blush and Other Stories, this is perhaps Elizabeth Taylor’s most anthologized short story. A. S. Byatt included it in the Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998), and it was… Read More ›