India's earliest epic.

American prose and the King James Bible.

What is historical fiction?

The fiction of Karen King-Aribisala

A conversation with Mary Karr.

We still need a biography of Flannery O'Connor.

A conversation with Charles Wright.

Chinua Achebe looks back.

Human, all too human.

Modern Italy through one writer's complicated life.

Robert Burns, biographied.

Samuel Johnson and the power of sympathy.

Early and uncollected stories by Mavis Gallant.

The argument fails to persuade.

How GKC subverts the subversives.

An illuminating new biography of Chesterton.

Emily Dickinson and the loss of belief.

Jews with swords.

A collection of stories from Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

The lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein.