Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s canon for children
The outgoing children’s laureate’s new book explores how our children live now
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An anti-guidebook to Andy Burnham’s Britain
Chris Moss’s new book is a travelogue from the places that will decide the country’s future
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Mario Vargas Llosa’s demons
He won the Nobel Prize at last. But will his reputation survive his scandalous private life?
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Vasily Grossman, war correspondent
The novelist’s reportage from the Second World War is brilliant and agonised
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The shadow of the apocalypse
Eighty years on, our sense of the shattering legacy of the Second World War is growing, not shrinking
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In Italy, everything is a family affair
The story of a troubled family reflects the political and social tensions of modern Italy
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Is David Thomson still watching?
After a lifetime of critiquing film, Thomson seems instead haunted by “white spaces”
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Samuel Beckett’s Proustian moment
The great Irish writer’s first book, an idiosyncratic study of Proust, was also a potent work of modernist literature
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