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In the early-modern period, as in our own, the category of “woman” could take many shapes

By Emily Ogden

Édouard Louis has become famous for mining his troubled family for material. Is he still as candid as before?

By Matt Rowland Hill

Colin Grant once more brings us the voices of the British migrant experience too often ignored

By K Biswas

Nigel Farage’s friend does him no favours

By Will Dunn

The abuse suffered 250 years ago by Thomas Hutchinson for upholding the law has echoes in US governance today

By Ferdinand Mount

Homer’s audience delighted in violence and bloodshed. Can modern readers stomach his story?

By Armand D'Angour

October 1978: Two books on, respectively, Hemingway and Fitzgerald reveal how different the heroes of American literature were

By Malcolm Bradbury