Reality is messier than than fiction that reduces historical figures like Hillary Clinton to the sum of her most oversimplified virtues and vices.

For Liane de Pougy life was a banquet, and she took seconds of every dish.

Jean Giono's narrators are often grounded in a kind of eternal present, where the coach will always run and a certain tree will always stand, moving us by degrees into the uneasy past of narrative.

Few artists in history have found as many devotees as Richard Wagner, for better or for worse.

Published in 2002, ‘Year of Wonders’ is set in a 17th-century English plague town.

Terry Eagleton's new book on tragedy can be a difficult read.