Review: Take Arms Against a 
Sea of Troubles

Harold Bloom's last book is an urgent, posthumous self-elegy to a career-long love affair with poetry

Review: Stanley Kubrick - American Filmmaker

David Mikics tracks Kubrick’s progress with the assiduity of a scholar and the warmth of a fan

Review: Independence Square

This is a swift-moving, engaging new novel, says Stoddard Martin

Review: Ducks, Newburyport

Stoddard Martin hails a major new work as possibly today’s ‘Great American Novel’

Book review: Kafka’s Last Trial

Stoddard Martin admires an account of travails over Kafka’s legacy.

Book review: The Life of Saul Bellow: Life and Strife 1965-2005

Stoddard Martin salutes a big warts’n’all biography

Book Review: Attention

Stoddard Martin admires Joshua Cohen for his dignity

Of Men and Angels review: An unstinting look at the biblical roots of gay persecution

Arditti’s own position is clear — the cruelty to which those indulging in gay sex have been subjected is revolting

Book review: Felix Culpa By Jeremy Gavron

Stoddard Martin approves of a novelistic experiment

Book review: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

Lines from a republic of letters

Rachel Seiffert's hypnotic wartime story

Stoddard Martin says Rachel Seiffert's new book would make a great film

Review: 10:04

A skilled and singular voice

Literary treasure houses

We delight in accounts of the astounding work of two devoted bookmen

Romain Gary: A Tall Story

Packed verbal baggage

Review: A Horse Walks Into A Bar

Standing up and falling down

Be in no doubt: Bob Dylan changed literature