Books & Lit
Feminine mystique: Why Bell Jar cover obscures real women
Faber's new Sylvia Plath edition has been ridiculed for its coy chic, but many publishers are similarly shy of the second sex Faber has rightly taken stick for the chick-litstyle jacket of its anniversary reissue of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar , with
Owen Sheers: The poet on the touchline
When I started my residency with the Welsh Rugby Union at the beginning of last year, I had no idea what I would write at the end of it. This unknown element was crucial. I wasn't interested in a knee-jerk residency where writers respond immediately to re
Sanctuary Line, By Jane Urquhart
Liz Crane, the narrator of Urquhart's bucolic novel, is an entomologist recently returned to her family's fruit farm in southern Ontario.
Showing her funny side: British Library to release Virginia Woolf's last unpublished work
The British Library is to show the mischievous and comic side to Virginia Woolf, with the release of her last unpublished work later this year.
In search of a very British, and rural, kind of horror
From a candlelight reading of MR James's ghost stories in a chapel, to visits to the locations of classic films and TV dramas, I've been on a journey to the darker side of East Anglia "Remember to wrap up warm!" says Robert Lloyd Parry, before my trip to
World Book Club: David Mitchell
David Mitchell talks to Harriett Gilbert about his book "Cloud Atlas".
Bookclub: George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia
John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder - review
Written as Judt was dying, this critical survey of 20th-century thought is a towering achievement Fame came too late for Tony Judt. He was 57 in 2005 when he published his history of Europe after 1945, Postwar , the book that sealed his reputation wor