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This has been an extraordinary autumn for books about the havoc bad fathers wreak on their children. It is hard to know which father

A novel set during the Algerian war has chilling relevance to what is happening in the Middle East today

The great critic’s letters reveal his struggles with anti-Semitism and disillusion with Marxism

New graphic novels take on difficult subject matter: the lives of Hannah Arendt and Anne Frank

The latest volume of Frederic Raphael's diaries is a book full of bite and feline gossip

A new Barbican exhibition explores how two were often better than one in the creative process

How a brilliant young Russian mathematician was blocked by blatant Soviet anti-Semitism

The maverick movie director Emir Kusturica backs Russian expansionism in the Balkans