The current Oxford Professor of Poetry, A. E. Stallings, has been described by the Hudson Review as “the most gifted formalist of her generation”. She is also a prolific translator and classicist: as ...

Katherine Rundell Seamus Heaney wrote, “We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves”; ...

Williams’s Careless People is a compulsively readable account of the effects of social media on democracy. Facebook’s former director of global public policy, Wynn-Williams left the company in 2017.

Visit the Times Bookshop to purchase the books below DAVID ABULAFIA In Courage and Compassion: A Jewish boyhood in German-occupied Greece (Berghahn), Tony Molho, a celebrated historian of Renaissance ...

368pp. Cape. £18.99. In Spring he dwells at boldly mimetic length on James’s non-starter of a relationship with Katherine, who is having a muted mid-thirties crisis of her own. Although the novel’s ...

As in Sally Rooney’s previous novels, the main characters in Intermezzo fall in love quickly, tidily and passionately. They meet, their outfits are described, they exchange clipped dialogue and are ...

When does a novel actually begin? Is it on the title page or with the first line of the story itself? And what about the “paratext” – things like cover ...

Libyans, the narrator of My Friends tells a writer he admires, “never leave home. We go far, and might stay decades, but remain strapped to the old country”. The two émigrés, not yet friends, have ...

400pp. Allen Lane. £25.

336pp. Yale University Press. £25. All this was accomplished in poorly paid and often insecure employment as librarians, administrators and, ultimately, professors. Jacob was also a diplomat, part of ...

Archaic Greek wisdom – from the eighth to the sixth centuries BCE – forms neither a massive nor even a coherent corpus. Take away Homer and Hesiod, and ...

Suetonius’s biographies of the rulers of Rome, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, are rich in character and telling detail – as emerges with clarity from Tom Holland’s excellent new ...