What Survives of Him is Love
Philip Larkin's letters to his lover Monica Jones speak of a non-sexual intimacy and chart his progression to poetic maturity
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Melodrama of a Manic Moralist
Book review of Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Continental Philosophies
Review of The Appointment by Herta Müller; Perlmann's Silence by Pascal Mercier; and The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Novel Idea
A new online scheme is taking publishing back to its roots, bringing authors closer to their readerships
The Erotic Inferno
Book review of Dante in Love by A.N. Wilson
A Life Less Ordinary
Book review of G.K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker
Ode to Joyce
Book review of James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker
The Longest Journey Will Always Lie Ahead
The last of the wartime travel writers, Patrick Leigh Fermor, may have departed the scene, but the genre he graced is still thriving
After Strange Gods
Review of Treason of the Heart: From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby by David Pryce-Jones
False Dawn of Revolution
Book review of Beacon for Change: How the 1951 Festival of Britain Shaped the Modern Age by Barry Turner
Outsider’s Insight
Book review of The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Artistic Suffering
Book review of At Last by Edward St Aubyn