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

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

Prophet of Terror by Keith Michael Baker ...

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

Born of Jewish-Russian parents who emigrated to the United States when she was seven, Julia Ioffe has long been one of the ...

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 ...

Clodia Metelli has gone down in history as one of the great femmes fatales of ancient Rome. Cicero shuddered at her ‘confident airs’ and intense ‘oxen eyes’ and jibed at her fondness for holidaying in ...

On My Watch serves as a record of a dysfunctional relationship between a superpower and its junior allies. European NATO ...

Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring ...

Bob Dylan has been ducking, weaving and obfuscating for so long – been the repository of so many people’s fantasies and theories – that it’s well nigh impossible now to tell where the truth about his ...

Climate remains a focus of public debate whatever the distractions of credit crunches, wayward parliamentarians, or a general election. These two books look specifically at the impacts of climate ...

What is the best way to begin a book? Anna Burns, in her third novel, has gone for the now-read-on approach: ‘The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to ...