Few people can have had more fun than Peter Lennon, working for an English newspaper in Paris. Lennon arrived in Paris from Dublin in approximately 1960, aged about twenty, and stayed for roughly ten ...

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Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize. In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.

Posterity judges us by what we do, our friends by what we are. People whose lives have been more essence than action are frustrating subjects for biographers. If those who remember him are to be ...

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 ...

AFTER ANITA BROOKNER'S brief experiment with an elderly man as the main character in last year's novel, The Next Big Thing, her trademark women are back at the centre here - and back with a vengeance.

It’s said that Oxford was spared destruction on the scale of Coventry because Adolf Hitler wanted the place as his capital after he conquered England. Ashley Jackson’s engrossing new book describes ...

It’s striking, if not startling, to be reminded that Ronald Blythe, the gifted, poised and complacent familiar spirit of the Essex–Suffolk border, was once a favourite of the New York Times, feted in ...

Our ruling class has lost its sprezzatura. To Baldassare Castiglione, who coined the word in 1528, this signified ‘the effortless resolution of all difficulties’. At Eton only a few decades ago, the ...

Wolfgang Münchau has, for more than thirty years, been one of the most acute and penetrating commentators on the European Union, writing in the Financial Times, the New Statesman and elsewhere. What I ...

At the start of Mammoth, the third novel in the Catalan writer Eva Baltasar’s ‘triptych’, the unnamed narrator organises a party in order to trick a man (any man) into having sex with her. She wants ...

There is a photograph of Mies van der Rohe talking to King Alfonso XIII of Spain. It was taken in May 1929 during the opening ceremony for Mies’s German Pavilion, built for that year’s World Fair in ...