With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...

On 14 June, Christie’s auctioned the cellar of a well-known wine authority and burnt Lloyd’s name. At the heart of the sale were two ‘super-lots’ of 195 and 197 cases, for each of which the reserve ...

Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed) ...

Sharpe père died in 1944, shortly before he could be apprised of the realities of Belsen. Even with the benefit of Brendon’s ...

Awake, Arise, or Be Forever Fallen - What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost by Orlando Reade ...

With Saints, Amy Jeffs makes her own contribution to the centuries-old tradition of abridging and compiling saints’ lives.

On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation by Lluís Quintana-Murci (Translated from French by Howard ...

Architects Behaving Badly - A Short History of British Architecture, from Stonehenge to the Shard by Simon Jenkins ...

The Ghost in the Studio ...

We Wanna Live Like Common People - Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite by Aaron Reeves & Sam Friedman ...

Among medieval heroes, El Cid has proved the most durable. There is no doubt that he, unlike King Arthur, existed; it is ...

Nights to Remember - The Party by Tessa Hadley ...