1 May, 2017
Nicolas Liney
Nicolas Liney reviews a welcome new biography of the prolific life- and letter-writer, Jane Welsh Carlyle.
22 February, 2016
Dominic Davies
Dominic Davies compares Ta-Nehisi Coates to his great predecessor James Baldwin.
29 April, 2013
Jeremy Diaper
Life begins (again) at 40 for a tired T. S. Eliot in the latest volume of his letters, as Jeremy Diaper discovers.
14 November, 2011
Francis Hutton-Williams
The second volume of Samuel Beckett's Letters documents the writer's correspondences during the Second World War.
16 May, 2011
Judyta Frodyma
Anthony Thwaite's Letters to Monica reveals affection and the quotidian in Larkin's correspondence with Monica Jones.
31 January, 2011
Paul Sweeten
Saul Bellow's Letters exhibits a vitalising honesty, but conceals the deeper affections of the novelist's spirit.
17 January, 2011
Ceri Hunter
Two new collections of Bronté's writings contain the passion, conflict, and torment of the Bronté Myth.