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In wartime Naples or Castro’s Cuba, the inconspicuous writer-traveller was a vivid chronicler of unseen worlds.

By John Gray

Theft, the Nobel Prize winner’s new novel, is full of wisdom and free of judgement.

By Elif Shafak

As David Sheff’s new biography reveals, decades of suspicion aimed at the provocative artist, musician and widow have obscured her…

By Kate Mossman

The past has been marked by periods of acceptance and intolerance of women’s bodily autonomy. Can it offer lessons for…

By Sophie McBain

Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection finely itemizes his generation’s quirks and quiddities, from their tastes in furniture to their favourite drugs.

By Nicholas Harris

The useless beauty of male birds is evidence of something evolutionists long struggled to accept: female agency.

By Kathleen Jamie

Daunted by the breadth of the material, I fear I will never be well read enough.

By Finn McRedmond