D.J. Taylor

No doubt much of this has to do with the question of her upbringing

Half a century on, how does E.L. Doctorow’s great American novel fare?

Susan Morrison’s book sets itself two tasks: where did its hero come from? And why is he so good at what he does?

The novel is as much a historical artifact as a work of fiction

One of The Haunted Wood’s great strengths is Sam Leith’s awareness of just how important children’s literature is

Daniel de Visé’s entertaining — if that is the right word — canter through Belushi and Aykroyd’s lives and times covers a fair number of bases

The writer was one of the great underrated chroniclers of ’the valley of the shadow of books’

While I expected the le Carré who emerges from it to be a womanizer, a fantasist and a self-server, I didn’t anticipate that he would be such a terrible bore

Richard Russo doesn’t do fireworks. Dazzling metaphorical flights are not his thing

The legendary British author’s attitude to the US is curiously double-edged

Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews by John Carey reviewed

Martin Amis has written another autobiography — sort of

D.J. Taylor tracks down the proofreaders and heartbreakers who were the toast of Blitz-era London