Review of The Appointment by Herta Müller; Perlmann's Silence by Pascal Mercier; and The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

The teaching of grammar should be at the heart of the school syllabus. Without it we are killing intellectual curiosity

Teaching Latin in primary state schools may be the answer to decling standards in literacy

The dearth of GCSE Greek courses — or indeed, Ancient Greek history — taught in state schools is to the great detriment of secondary school pupils