Philip Roth’s French interview announcing the end of his writing career has just been published in English.

Today is Remembrance Day. But what is it that we are remembering – the dead or “the fallen”, the pity of war or its glory, waste or “sacrifice”?

Orhan Pamuk talks about his most recently translated novel and his Museum of Innocence project in Istanbul, based on the novel of the same name.

He asked them for credit, they answered him ‘Yea’ …

AN Wilson has a bit of a laugh at the expense of victims of sexual exploitation.

Young Nathan Zuckerman is preaching to his father about politics, but his father has some lessons too about what the Republican party is for.

Charlotte Brontë receives some well meant advice from a more senior literary figure, which however she finds a little confusing.

Being a writer can be and has been combined with many other activities, manufacturing paint and varnish for example.

When exactly was it that Protestant ascendancy began to decay in Ireland? In WB Yeats’s eloquent speech in the Irish senate in 1925 on the divorce question, there is already a feeling of harking back to a more illustrious past, a sense that the great days are regrettably over: “We against whom you have done…

“Behind the door of every happy, satisfied person,” wrote Chekhov in the story “Gooseberries”, “there ought to stand a man with a hammer whose constant knocking would be a reminder that there are unhappy people in the world, and that however happy he may be, life sooner or later will show him its claws and…