Viennese rooms with a point of view
The salons of Vienna were key spaces for promoting the emancipation of women and Jews
Sylvia has the last wounding word
The second volume of Plath’s Letters begins with great happiness and poetic promise — and ends with the destruction of her marriage and her death
Low points of life with Father
This has been an extraordinary autumn for books about the havoc bad fathers wreak on their children. It is hard to know which father comes out worst: Jonathan Miller or Steve Jobs
A journey towards faith
A novel set during the Algerian war has chilling relevance to what is happening in the Middle East today