The pleasure of reading archetypally English books while abroad

‘Trigger warnings are not merely tools for censoring febrile material for the few, but a complaint about the dominance of Western thought'

A careful and learned account which will be required reading for future historians of Burke

The political implications of prosecco versus a pint

Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi is reprehensible but shows his love of Greece

"By all means, let the wicked fry in Hell—but why should they find themselves frying alongside innocent and virtuous pagans?"

Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel is an entertaining tale of blackmail and family warfare — but is not up to the standard of his best

Two poets show that fierce emotion is not restricted by rhyme or meter

Fresh translations of lesser-known Russian literature are opening up new horizons

The case for memorising verse is often dismissed as nostalgia for the bad old days of rote learning. But memory lifts poems off the page.