The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity

There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press

The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked

A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead

How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?

The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry

Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season

A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender

Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades

From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation