Books

Pass the time by these passages into times present and past: post-war to Covid-era

Donald Trump should write a novel to at least give him the chance to deliver a bit of payback for this release by Hillary Clinton

The greatest works of fiction published this year

It would be easy to deride Emily Ratajowski as a hypocrite, but there is something deeper underneath her famous looks

Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves

From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not

Hidden Lessons is filled with clichéd phrasing and, even worse, predictable and clichéd thinking

Magritte’s work is no more socially potent than dog-mess on a doorstep

Not much has changed since Philip Gibbs’ forgotten classic lifted the lid on early 20th century Fleet Street

The transgressive, transmedial and transnational nature of the Gothic genre