The Life of Louise Bourgeois by Marie-Laure Bernadac (Translated from French by Lauren Elkin) ...

Death of a Democracy by Victor Sebestyen; Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer ...

A Visual History by Thomas W Laqueur ...

Some of the most disagreeable people I have encountered in three decades of financial journalism work in private equity. A ...

Born into raffish Polish-Russian gentry in 1870, Vera Gedroits resisted convention from an early age. Passionate and ...

A phrase like ‘fortress England’ seems to echo down the centuries, and turns up again in This Little World, Nandini Das’s new study of identity and belonging, cross-border migration, assimilation and ...

For a computer programmer, or indeed anyone at all, Ada Lovelace had the oddest start in life. She was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron and hence should have been the female incarnation of ...

On Women, Music and Power by Lauren Elkin ...

‘The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.’ Thus, more than a century ago, Lytton Strachey began Eminent Victorians. In fact, Strachey offers a model of how to ...

One doesn’t need modern tools of computational analysis to determine that the most common words in Svetlana Alexievich’s Last Witnesses are ‘mama’ and ‘papa’. The stories it contains of the ...

Just towards the end of Penelope Fitzgerald's brilliant new novel, the reader is treated to a ghost-story, told in the manner of M R James. It is the harrowing tale of an 1870s archaeological dig in a ...