The latest volume of T.S. Eliot's letters provide agreeable shocks and reveals the travails of both his professional and love lives

Edmund Spenser: A Life by Andrew Hadfield is vivid in parts, but ultimately fails to paint a clear picture of the 16th century poet

Martin Amis is a true writer but Lionel Asbo is yet another example of his failure to break into a new vein

Delving into the various linguistic predicaments of Samuel Beckett reveals the beautiful complications of his writings.

Book review of Capital by John Lanchester

The 17th-century Dean celebrated prosperity as well as poetry and felt no need to transform the Church into an agency of social work

Philip Larkin's letters to his lover Monica Jones speak of a non-sexual intimacy and chart his progression to poetic maturity

Cynthia Ozick's intricate and artful new novel Foreign Bodies echoes the majesty of Henry James's late period

In the wake of the Arab Spring, Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam looks mightily prophetic

Who will want to volunteer to sit on school boards in the harsh new education climate?