On 22 January 1561, Francis Bacon was born at York House in the Strand, London – a place of politics and privilege that would define…
Literary fiction is fiction valued chiefly for the quality of its writing, the depth of its characters and the questions it raises about human experience,…
Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist and translator, wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. What the Swedish Academy said, and what the work is.
Leodora Darlington’s debut, The Exes, is a thriller about a young woman with a history of blackouts who begins to wonder whether she is responsible…
By Tessa Nolan Vladimir Nabokov arrived in England in the spring of 1919 with a butterfly net, a schoolboy’s English, and no country to go…
A lost annotated novel, a bench at Leicester Square and Anthony Hopkins: George Feifer's own account of the coincidence Hopkins still tells.
Marlon James, Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout, M. John Harrison, Luke Kennard and Rebecca Perry make the Booker 2026 shortlist. The winner is named on 9…
By Sara Bright Charles Dickens didn’t just write novels; he pioneered a dynamic, serialized form of storytelling with The Pickwick Papers that fundamentally reshaped literary…
By Sara Bright The Bloomsbury Group, a collective of early 20th-century English writers, intellectuals, philosophers, and artists, challenged Victorian rigidity through radical honesty. Beyond their…
In the annals of historical writing, few events have invited as many retellings as the fall of Maximilien Robespierre on 9 Thermidor Year II –…