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 ...

Good history opens up sightlines not only to the past but to the present as well. It allows us to see aspects of our current circumstance as the product of developments that are deeper and richer than ...

Few people can have had more fun than Peter Lennon, working for an English newspaper in Paris. Lennon arrived in Paris from Dublin in approximately 1960, aged about twenty, and stayed for roughly ten ...

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Yu Hua, an author new to me, has written a great deal, sells well in China, and has a sizeable international reputation. This is his first non-fiction work translated – and very nimbly, too, by Allan ...

Mick Herron’s Slough House spy thrillers are, by now, one of the least well-kept secrets in espionage fiction. Everyone with even half an eye on the genre knows he’s somewhere near the top. He is ...

Priests have blessed armies and weapons, and sanctioned executions and massacres, but never so widely as in Putin’s Russia. Donald Rayfield on the history of Russian Orthodoxy. Donald Rayfield - ...

Priests have blessed armies and weapons, and sanctioned executions and massacres, but never so widely as in Putin’s Russia. Donald Rayfield on the history of Russian Orthodoxy. Are children being ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and ...

Priests have blessed armies and weapons, and sanctioned executions and massacres, but never so widely as in Putin’s Russia. Donald Rayfield on the history of Russian Orthodoxy. Are children being ...

Priests have blessed armies and weapons, and sanctioned executions and massacres, but never so widely as in Putin’s Russia. Donald Rayfield on the history of Russian Orthodoxy. Donald Rayfield - ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. ‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’ @RankinNick gives the question his best shot. Nicholas ...