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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

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

Five wives and out? How Saul Bellow’s turbulent private life informed his novels

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

Nationalism has returned to the front pages. The Western intelligentsia is appalled. Should they be?

Stella Tillyard's novel The Great Level is a strange and elusive beast

Two very different books come as close as possible to explaining the enigma that is Murdoch and his extraordinary media empire

Roland Philipps makes a strong case that Donald Maclean was, from the Soviet point of view, the most valuables spy of the Cambridge Five

Heavy-hitters tackling big subjects of direct relevance to Britain today — now that is good news

Ed Husain argues in his new book "The House of Islam" that the key struggle of our time is within Islam itself