Invasion of the Book Snatchers ...

If you upset someone, they might say you’re chopping onions on their heart (yethrem basal all ras efadi), a term similar in ...

An Afterlife by Francesca Wade ...

The Man Who Made the Modern World by Graham Tomlin ...

Publishers have a big problem with feminism. Editors tend to subscribe to the notion that feminists are dreary and not to be bothered with, but every now and then a feminist book is a spectacular (and ...

I realised almost as soon as I began reading Norman Davies’s new history of the Second World War in Europe that I was not the best person to review it. In his introduction he says, without a blushing ...

First and last, Rimbaud was an entrepreneur; so his was no ‘double life’. He embarked on new and invariably risky undertakings. Sometimes he won and sometimes he lost – mostly the latter, at least ...

Twenty years ago, in A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood gave an account of a teacher's day which, although marred by its mawkish memories of the hero's dead lover, remains both extremely funny as ...

Rooting around in the basement of a Camden library a couple of decades ago I came across a set of shelves buckling under the weight of the handsome Caxton edition of Balzac’s Comédie humaine, ...

Helen Lewis doesn’t come across as a ‘difficult’ woman. She is thoughtful and hard-working, describing here how she sifted through many biographies, letters and archives to write this history of ...