The enduring power of books

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…

Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives

Browse Newsweek staff’s favorite books to read on vacation. There’s something for everyone

Review of reviews: Books

Does alcohol really make the world go round, asks our regular reviewer