Summer is the cruellest season
It is the perfect setting for novels that push their protagonists to breaking point
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Irvine Welsh has chosen life
The Trainspotting author on death, decay and the good life
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Eric Hobsbawm, the man who knew almost everything
The historian’s range was incomparable. But one question eluded him: why did communism fail?
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Robert Service’s very Russian coup
A new book details the sultry last days of the USSR
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Love on the front line
War correspondent Sally Hayden’s new collection of dispatches is horrifying and tender
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M John Harrison’s catastrophic memory
The writer’s five-decade career urges us not to let disaster become familiar
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Claudia Rankine’s new visions
America’s premier political poet has moved beyond didacticism and towards a conciliatory understanding of belonging
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Fiction as anthropology as auto-ethnography
Munir Hachemi’s second novel The Mulai shows us how radical literature can be
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