Isaac Bashevis Singer would never have submitted to today’s ideological edicts

The lot of the writer today is one of insecurity, wounded pride and dwindling returns

Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not

Stanfield adds little to the history of rock that hasn’t been said better elsewhere

Gideon Rachman fails to distinguish the strong from those who pretend to be

A dialectical mind, Lawrence is modern in his resistance to labels

The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel

Portraits of six great leaders, from the pen of Henry Kissinger

Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?

Locked rooms and dark churchyards