Sheila Kohler’s novels include The Bay of Foxes, Dreaming for Freud, Becoming Jane Eyre, and Open Secrets She is also the author of three short-story collections and a memoir, Once We Were Sisters.. She teaches creative writing at Princeton and Columbia universities.
Sheila Kohler
The Constancy of Things
All it took was that first bite for her to realize that she had indeed been hungry, not just for food, but for pleasure, for life.
by Sheila Kohler | Tuesday, March 01, 2022
The Windmills of Our Minds
Reading Cervantes during the pandemic
by Sheila Kohler | Monday, August 03, 2020
Camouflage
Recalling a past of sound and silence, and secrets that could never be told
by Sheila Kohler | Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Diamonds
The stones, shimmering and precious, connect a writer to her generous, enigmatic mother
by Sheila Kohler | Monday, June 04, 2018
The Other Woman
A mother’s devastating secret, and its many reverberations, present and past
by Sheila Kohler | Monday, June 06, 2016
Silences
A South African family of privilege kept its secrets
by Sheila Kohler | Monday, September 08, 2014
Think Always of the Reader
by Sheila Kohler | Monday, May 23, 2016
J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg
The sinister truths of our souls