2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (542+ words) The TV host, beloved for her cheerful documentaries, discusses the importance of classics in schools and how she’s conquering Tiktok Professor Bettany Hughes is out of breath when she answers my call. “Sorry!” she puffs. “I’m on a Viking site…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (742+ words) Her 1966 novel The Microcosm emboldened many women to come out but she warned: ‘Do be careful. You must be a very strong person to do this’ ​Maureen Duffy, who has died aged 92, was a wide-ranging novelist, playwright, poet and biographer…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (52+ words) telegraph.co.uk There’s an interview with Ben Lerner, poet and novelist, from just over a decade ago – back then, he was 36 – in which one detail says it all… You’ll receive regular news updates Enjoy 1 year for $29...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (437+ words) Often improvised and bashed out in weeks to capitalise on a movie’s success, adapted books were the social media campaigns of their day This was for good reason: authors were given, at most, a month or two to write the…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (839+ words) ‘The poet of the spy novel’, he transformed a flashy, tuxedo-clad genre into something more gritty and realistic Len Deighton, who has died aged 97, was acclaimed “the poet of the spy novel”, having almost singlehandedly rescued spy fiction from the…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (268+ words) Robert Newman’s Intelligence had plenty going for it, from the Oxford setting to the crunchy philosophical issues. But the execution is dire Wartime Oxford, at least, is proving more resilient as a literary subject. The truncated degrees, the doomed young…...