Donald Clarke: Problem is not with the writer but with the smallness of the critics’ minds

An Irishman’s Diary

Review: Just try and stay out of the room for the excruciatingly sunny David Bowie cover

Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature

The route to instilling more of an ethical compass in finance is by putting it through a prism of art and literature, argues new book by Harvard professor

Division and parsing of human suffering by age and condition can be a hazard of advocacy

Review: ‘Doctor Thorne’, ‘Dunblane: Our Story’, ‘The toughest Trade’

Trollope is still popular so why was interest in his bicentenary so patchy? Perhaps because mainstream fans lean to the right while his academic champions lean to the left

Decision over colonial-era royal insignia stirs controversy as some fight to ‘retain heritage’

Side by side with our appreciation of Trollope as an acclaimed English novelist, we need to take stock of him as an honorary Irish writer of considerable achievement, argues the author of Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland

Candour and honesty define the life and work of Edmund White, the prolific American novelist with a genius for expressing the agonies of human sexuality