Edmund White

An Irishman’s Diary

John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Roy Foster among over 100 writers to express dismay over departure of New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma

Beckett’s legacy endures, and reaches far beyond the written word

Madeleine Thien now favourite with symphonic masterwork Do Not Say We Have Nothing

The great French writer Colette was the first French woman to be given a state funeral - although she was denied a Catholic one because of her two divorces

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

A wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history of Paris