Dram and drug

How The Pickwick Papers revolutionized Victorian publishing

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

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

What’s in a Year: A Countryman’s Tale Through ...

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias