America, América is the by turns woeful, despairing and ironic tale of the USA’s sustained attempts to turn its southern ...

Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age by Peter Brooks; On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays by Henry James (Edited by ...

But during the Great Purge he was arrested and tortured; he confessed to having worked undercover for Russia’s enemies and ...

The money part is solid golden age. And, of course, now utterly vanished. Carter is from Ottawa, a sensible capital city of ...

A Memoir by Josephine Baker (Translated from French by Anam Zafar & Sophie Lewis); Josephine Baker’s Secret War: The African ...

It’s a bit late now; we’re a third of the way through and there’s a lot more of this to come.’ A lot of what comes in William ...

Sometime in the mid-1970s, I went to a party in Tina Brown’s rooms in Bloomsbury, and was introduced to Alexander Chancellor. I was then working for the New Statesman, correctly recollected in this ...

Biographers of T S Eliot face a number of challenges, not least the marked disinclination of their subject to having his biography written at all. When, in the early 1960s, a scholar wrote an account ...

Gate of Lilacs is, in Clive James’s words, a ‘quinzaine of rhapsodies’: a poem of fifteen parts in blank verse that is also a critical essay on Proust. ‘His book,’ says James, ‘big for a book, is ...

A E Housman remains the best advertisement in English literature for the enabling power of repression. He was, as his brother Laurence said, ‘provokingly reserved’, though from beneath the lid he kept ...

This is the autobiography of the first man to reach the top of Mount Everest, and return to tell the tale. His friend and comrade Tenzing Norgay was second on the rope to the summit: whether George ...

Not too likely judging by my current rate of promotion, but if I were God and mulling over a bit of fire and brimstone for the House of Commons, Richard Body’s membership might stay My hand. We get ...