The warm, human despatches of a gay poet from Reagan’s America
A compelling memoir of Aidan Higgins and a mode of literary life now gone
Elizabeth Bowen’s love letters recall her first extramarital affair
The need for global preparedness before the next pandemic arrives
Inter-communal violence in the early years of Northern Ireland
How the secret police bedded in communism in postwar Central Europe
Weirdness, greatness and everything in between: New Yorkers talk the talk
US Republican Party strategy and the irresistible populist temptation
How liberals in the US treated Bill Clinton’s accuser Paula Jones
A classic account of the life of a working class Parisian street
Lawrence’s skewed sexual politics and its legacy in the porn industry
Orwell and the Spanish anarchists: not judging murder too severely