Sometimes you want prestige drama that roils with nuance and complexity. And sometimes you want Armitage shouting in a cagoule

Using the tools of premodern critical race studies and whiteness studies, this article brings to critical visibility the Black women Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice evokes in passing, only to leav...

Six writers are in contention for the £10,000 books prize, which celebrates fiction that ‘breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form’

My mid-Sept 26 romance reading round-up!

Elegantly told and rich in meaning, “Fatherland” is a beautifully derived piece of heartbreaking art.

Learning from Star Trek’s space whales

A terrific Regency, with a downtrodden widowed countess finding her feet/spine. Eliza was marr...

Spoilers: NoneGenre: Paranormal Mystery / Urban Fantasy DetectiveFormat: PaperbackSource: BoughtRating: Liked (4★) Smyth is growing as a writer with each book, and The Unfathomable Curse is the best in the series so far. In this instalment, The Undetectables detective agency faces its most personal case yet, and they are on the clock to solve it before a fatal deadline.

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - with the US as the only nation to vote against it.

Sir David Suchet (Poirot) is swapping the little grey cells for the suspect list this Christmas, as the BBC has announced a festive special of 'Ludwig',

The Booker Prize-winning author on reading his way through writer's block, and why every sentence has to risk going too far

The world of 1970s Italian cinema is the glossy backdrop for an elegantly wrought but shallow novel

Second world war paintings and sketches show novelist ‘engaging with her world in a new light’ For decades, they lay in a secret room in her attic gathering dust. Now, newly discovered artworks by the Booker prize-winning author Iris Murdoch – including the only self-portrait she is known to have painted, four surrealist landscape paintings and three sketches of female nudes – will go on display for the first time on Friday. The artworks were created at the start of the second world war when Murdoch was a student at Oxford. They expose her early interest in surrealism and fascination with the naked female form. Continue reading...

‍Back in February I said that I was going to round up my romance reading every month, since we’re losing so many review spaces. And then a lot of copy-edits happened. Sorry about that. Anyway, here ...

ITV has unveiled its programming highlights for August through December 2026, with a particularly strong batch of scripted series heading to ITV1 and ITVX

Thomas Mann's supreme achievement, The Magic Mountain is a novel of astonishing philosophical complexity and formal brilliance. Sometimes forgotten is that it is also, at its heart, an emotionally res...

From the last days of the Titanic to desperate romantics, we rate the work of a British master of black comedy