Do we really need another biography about Francis Bacon? The answer is emphatically yes, says Christopher Bray

The rambling and discursive nature of the writing lends Rupert Everett’s book an enjoyable appeal

Serenhedd James finds folly and ruin frequently go together in Rory Fraser’s new release: Follies

Barry Turner delves into an illuminating and entertaining insight into Bohemian life in the fast lane

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Belgium’s greatest fictional detective

How choosing a trans-woman to read Virginia Woolf’s most intimate words is at odds with the crux of this Charleston Trust event

What is being proposed by the university represents the closing down of intellectual horizons and the deliberate vandalism of a highly respected English department

On the 100th anniversary of her birth, Highsmith remains one of the great uncompromising writers of the last century

There is a great deal to look forward to this year, and hopefully not that much to dread

George Orwell has a gift for the unusual and the memorable that means that even his half-forgotten novels are well worth discovering once again