Stephen Kershaw may have taken accessibility too far in his classical account

Why has talking about books become the preserve of know-nothing celebrities?

So entropic is Geoff Dyer’s latest that the reader seeks desperately for structure

Extra-judicial killing and its long aftermath forms the core of Linda Kinstler’s remarkable new book

Narrative, voice and good novels — not always at the same time

Louise Perry suggests that ancestral prudence is now lost among the youth

The good, the beautiful and the grotesque

Romanticism rising from the rubble

Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death

There is better crime fiction being written