With social blood pressure so high, with such embryos of plots and counterplots darkly developing, with, generally, an ...

The Man Who Made the Modern World by Graham Tomlin ...

An Afterlife by Francesca Wade ...

And yet, as Eric Marshall White persuasively argues in his admirable new biography of Gutenberg, such methods did not and ...

‘Dornford Yates’ was the pen-name of novelist William Mercer, 1885–1960. Of all the authors whose fiction has got about my wits, none has tempted me so clamorously to find out about his factual life.

Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead by Kenneth Rogoff ...

The days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...

Lustrum, the second volume of Robert Harris's trilogy following the life, career and political travails of Cicero, is a splendidly researched historical blockbuster of real human depth and political ...

Convinced of her own brilliance, Gertrude Stein wished to be ‘as popular as Gilbert and Sullivan’ and laboured tirelessly to ensure that her celebrity would outlive her. @sophieolive examines the real ...

The Boys unfolds over the summer of 2012. Robson’s narrator and protagonist, Johnny Voghel, is thirty and going nowhere fast.

Portrait of the Biographer as a Young Man - Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker by Zachary Leader ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...