6 books to explain Trump's win
Donald Trump was elected by America's wealthy as well as its working class.
Dante: he went mad in his hell
If revenge and reciprocal violence are the essence of God's justice, Dante's 'Inferno' despairs of God.
The author who defined the 1960s
Wolfe says he never took LSD himself.
16 books that explain the 2016 US election
These are the 16 best works revealing the inner workings of this presidential race.
18 books Warren Buffett thinks you should read
Warren Buffett used to read 1000 pages a day and still spends 80 per cent of his day reading.
Lenin's missed connections
It combines diplomatic intrigue, spycraft, towering personalities, bureaucratic bungling, military history and ideology.
Global stars you've never heard of
What happened next can be read in baffled news and police reports.
A different way to think about time travel
This salon is at once literary and scientific
The strange origins of Frankenstein
What does Frankenstein represent to us today, 200 years on?
Satire about reviving slavery wins Man Booker
An American author has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for the first time, with a biting satire about race relations in the USA.
Celebrating Seamus Heaney's legacy, at his birthplace
The centre is built on the site of a former headquarters of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
