Ruth Scurr on the master biographer Robert A. Caro, whose subjects include Robert Moses, Lyndon B. Johnson and, now, himself; Dmitri Levitin talks us through Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, an eccentric and often inaccurate guide to early thinkers; Why bother with literary criticism? Whither this generation's Lionel Trilling? Michael LaPointe joins us to discuss
Working: Researching, interviewing, writing by Robert A. Caro
American Audacity: In defense of literary daring by William Giraldi
Hater: On the virtues of utter disagreeability by John Semley
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius, translated by Pamela Mensch
Knowing laughter
Journey to the centre of the earth
To infinities – and beyond
Ian McEwan – an interview
As we like it
Youth injustice system
Whitechapel and Weimar
A deep history of Europe
Forgotten, not gone
Dave Eggers: The violations start with us
O, the Edward Gorey of it all
A nose is a nose is a nose…
Unsilenced voices
Zadie Smith, in conversation
Half glitzy, half dowdy
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: the inaugural Gabriel García Márquez lecture
Narratives of sexual assault
How Macron went wrong
‘American Standard’, a new poem by Paul Muldoon
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