Portrait of the Biographer as a Young Man - Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker by Zachary Leader ...

Invasion of the Book Snatchers ...

If you upset someone, they might say you’re chopping onions on their heart (yethrem basal all ras efadi), a term similar in ...

The Man Who Made the Modern World by Graham Tomlin ...

Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the language reconstructed by philologists and the common ancestor of IE languages, was itself a ...

An Afterlife by Francesca Wade ...

And yet, as Eric Marshall White persuasively argues in his admirable new biography of Gutenberg, such methods did not and ...

‘Dornford Yates’ was the pen-name of novelist William Mercer, 1885–1960. Of all the authors whose fiction has got about my wits, none has tempted me so clamorously to find out about his factual life.

With social blood pressure so high, with such embryos of plots and counterplots darkly developing, with, generally, an ...

The days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...

Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead by Kenneth Rogoff ...

Convinced of her own brilliance, Gertrude Stein wished to be ‘as popular as Gilbert and Sullivan’ and laboured tirelessly to ensure that her celebrity would outlive her. @sophieolive examines the real ...