Literature

The great Jewish writer Emanuel Litvinoff’s greatest novel has just been republished

Clive James’s verse commentary on Proust is not a work of criticism, but of deep and eloquent appreciation

How Miguel de Cervantes, an aging veteran of Spain’s wars, created the blueprint for modern literature

J.L. Carr’s masterpiece A Month in the Country only runs to 85 pages. If only more writers realised that length isn’t everything

The Romans had a tendency towards alarming additives in their drinks

The Everyman edition of Burke’s writings shows off the full range of his achievements

The final volume of Burke’s writings proves we are living in a golden age of Burke scholarship

As the BBC version of The Night Manager shows, the novelist has become his own tribute band

Throughout literature, supernatural creatures have a way of disturbing safe havens

Cocteau’s poetic protégé was a louche literary wunderkind the world lost too soon