I love a good read and with summer now tantalisingly close it's time to select the best books to take away on your holidays.

It’s no spoiler to reveal that Tom dies of cancer early in the story but returns as a ghost seen and heard only by Kalin. In ...

In a new essay collection, the novelist and critic offers her observations on artists, technology and a vanishing public commons.

The Nation spoke with Meaney about his early life, his thinking about aesthetics and left politics, the Anglo reception of Chinese literature, and the future of magazines and the world. This ...

I picked up The Familiar, by Leigh Bardugo, because the story takes place in late 16th century Spain amid the Inquisition.

But these are unreasonable times, and this is the Alamo, the supposed cradle of Texas liberty, shrouded in John Wayne ...

There is an eerie similarity between the Emergency and now, in terms of actors, sites of conflict, and institutions. If ...

Shibboleth” appears in “Dead and Alive,” Smith’s collection of previously published essays, in which she assumes most if not ...

Ruskin Bond is one of the most prolific and renowned writers in India, his writings are mainly suited for young readers and ...

A couple has claimed that their all-inclusive holiday was ruined by "grim" food and "disgusting" facilities, including ...