The same question is at the heart of three very different international novels on The Bookshelf this week, “What really happened”… To a WWI soldier who has forgotten his name and identity in The ...

Crawford explores Eliot’s personal struggles and secret love affairsNewly revealed letters shed light on Eliot’s hidden ...

I recently bought a history of 19th-century France from a reputable second-hand books site, where its condition was described ...

The Movie Stays the Same, Yet the Interpretation Is Often Very Different”: David Secter on the 60 Year Legacy of Winter Kept Us Warm “Winter kept us warm,” reads an early ...

If we’re honest with ourselves, those of us who write action/adventure novels will freely acknowledge that Forsyth was “the better craftsman,” indeed, the best craftsman. I suspect that Forsyth would ...

Over 100 years after the first publication of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’, an Urdu book delves into the poem’s journey and ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel is a slender epic of wealth and society, brilliantly depicting the ambitions and illusions of a mysterious self-made man.

U.S.-born T.S. Eliot migrated to England in 1914, and quickly became what he is today, the English-speaking world’s most distinguished poet and literary critic, one of England’s most ...

The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for centuries.

Missing letters, a secret love affair, a famous poet, a beautiful actress — what else could you possibly want in a story? ...