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 ...

In December 2021, the volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai erupted, cascading ash and magma onto the islands and people of Tonga. It also sliced a 55-mile gash through the fibre optic cable that carried ...

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 ...

On page 510 of the published correspondence of John Updike, the author is making a new will, after filing for divorce from first wife, Mary Pennington, and a year before his wedding to Martha Ruggles ...

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

For those of us who lead lives of quiet desperation this book puts matters into perspective. The journalist Peter Zimonjic was on one of the three Tube trains – a bus was also blown up – bombed on 7 ...

Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring ...

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 ...