Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Allan Collins & James L. Traylor
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A new biography of the crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
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The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner
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A new book charts the long literary life of Chaucer’s most popular character.
Read MoreSunday Best By John Carey
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Veteran book critic collects work spanning thousands of reviews.
Read MoreShirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas
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An epic and long-awaited biography of the great writer Shirley Hazzard.
Read MoreEven the Darkest Night by Javier Cercas
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Javier Cercas, one of Spain’s greatest writers, turns to crime fiction to confront the ghosts of the Spanish Civil War.
Read MoreThe Turning Point by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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A new book cites 1851 as a key year in the career of Charles Dickens.
Read MoreIndex, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
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The index at the back of the books you read has a fascinating history, as this terrific new book details.
Read MoreShelf Life by Nadia Wassef
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The story of a groundbreaking Egyptian bookstore chain, told by one of its founders.
Read MoreBright Star, Green Light by Jonathan Bate
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The parallel lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Read MoreBooks Promiscuously Read by Heather Cass White
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A surprisingly stirring description of reading as a means of self-claiming.
Read MoreRevise by Pamela Haag
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A bracingly clear-eyed approach to fixing up your boring old prose.
Read MoreDevils, Lust and Strange Desires by Richard Bradford
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A new biography of the author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”
Read MoreIn Search of Isaiah Berlin by Henry Hardy
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Henry Hardy explores the different and at times conflicting sides of the famous scholar Isaiah Berlin
Read MoreShakespearean by Robert McCrum
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An author considers why the words of William Shakespeare continue to hold such relevance even in today’s difficult times—for us and for himself.
Read MoreUnfinished Business by Vivian Gornick
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A critic and journalist considers how a lifetime of experience has opened her eyes to new meanings in old books.
Read MoreThe Big Book of Modern Fantasy, edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer
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A stuffed, generous collection of post-WWII fantasy stories from around the world.
Read MoreLost in Thought by Zena Hitz
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A new book examines the worth - and even the possibility - of taking pleasure from an intellectual life.
Read MoreThe Poets & Writers Complete Guide To Being a Writer
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Everything every aspiring writer could ever want to know about the world they hope to enter
Read MoreScandinavian Noir by Wendy Lesser
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A new book by Wendy Lesser examines the phenomenon of Nordic noir.
Read MoreAuthor interview: Alison Weir
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In Anna of Kleve, Weir crafts an intriguingly multifaceted portrait of this oddest of all English queens. Open Letters asked her some questions about the challenges of this latest installment in the “Six Tudor Queens” series.
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