Margaret Atwood has ‘always found snivelling in public embarrassing’. Light on introspection, even lighter on confession, ...

Inside the Outsider - The Complete Notebooks by Albert Camus (Translated from French by Ryan Bloom) ...

Advice to Poets - The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume 10: 1942–1944 by Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (edd) ...

Prophet of Terror by Keith Michael Baker ...

Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring ...

Doublethink & Doubt - Orwell: 2+2=5 by Raoul Peck (dir); George Orwell: Life and Legacy by Robert Colls ...

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a sprawling work of social portraiture stuffed with allusions to Dickens, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Although it is set between 1996 and 2001, its themes are urgently ...

In his Commencement Address at Amherst in 1993, John Updike told the students that they were graduating at a time when history was more like a short-story collection than a novel. The Cold War that he ...

This is a truly excellent book, one of the best it has been my pleasure to read in the line of duty for years. Joanne Harris achieves everything a novelist should aim for, with no sense of effort or ...

Born of Jewish-Russian parents who emigrated to the United States when she was seven, Julia Ioffe has long been one of the sharpest commentators on her former homeland. This is her first book. Writing ...

This year is the centenary of the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act, which sought to halt the sale of titles by British governments. Stephen Bates, a Guardian journalist and social historian, marks ...