Stepping out of his apartment block in Paris’s chic sixteenth arrondissement, the filmmaker Robert Bristol narrowly avoids ...

Speaking of her late husband, Valerie Eliot once remarked “He felt he had paid too much to be a poet, that he had suffered ...

Book titles that begin “The Treasury of …” suggest a box that you open to find jewels inside. The Treasury of Folklore: ...

This smartly presented story, the first in a dual language series that will feature international authors writing on aspects ...

Standing in the full / glare of the war, I’m a surface / reflecting its awesome light”, Oksana Maksymchuk declares in Still ...

An ambitious novel of ideas, Aurélien Bellanger’s Les derniers jours du Parti socialiste (The Last Days of the Socialist ...

“I beg you to send me immediately the remaining Vols:”, Henry Fielding wrote to Samuel Richardson in October 1748. Fielding was requesting the final volumes of Clarissa; or, The History of a Young ...

In 1916, Isaac Babel, who did more than anyone to put his Ukrainian hometown on the literary map, began one of his first published pieces with an admission: “Odesa is a nasty place. Everybody knows ...

Joan Aiken was the daughter of the acclaimed twentieth-century poet Conrad Aiken, and her short stories have long been neglected in favour of her highly regarded crossover novels admired by both ...

From time to time pessimists declare the literary novel dead and drowned. Currently such pundits distrust its capacity for survival in our tough, market-driven publishing climate, in which sales ...

The inauguration of Donald Trump looks different if you are very close to it, as I currently am (living a stone’s throw from the Capitol). Sure, some things don’t change. The media on both sides of ...