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The most reticent and troubled member of the so-called New York School of Poets, James Schuyler (1923–91) gave his first ...

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Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri, and moved, at the age of four, to nearby Hannibal on the banks of the Mississippi. His father was a taciturn justice of the peace ...

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No doubt I will not be the last to remark that this is the most fascinating book Patrick McGrath did not write. It has all the ingredients of one of McGrath’s icily stylish novels: madness, violence, ...

Kit de Waal’s second novel, The Trick to Time, begins with Mona, a sixty-year-old Irish immigrant, standing by her window in the middle of the night. She notices a man in the building across from her ...

Nadine Gordimer is one of the great figures of our time. A political activist and excoriating critic in apartheid-era South Africa, she has more recently campaigned for social justice and AIDS ...

Get ready to start hearing a lot about Martin Luther. On 31 October 2017 it will be five hundred years since Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, ...

Norma Clarke: Hutch Ado About Nothing - The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England by Karen Harvey ...

In his excellent introduction to this book, Terence Dooley suggests that her first novel, The Golden Child, was ‘perhaps a false start’. For me, there is no perhaps about it. Although entertaining ...