Leading historians share the texts that have inspired and informed their work

Konstantin Vaginov Goat Song and The Works and Days of Whistlin Translated by Ainsley Morse with Geoff Cebula 376pp. New York Review Books. Paperback, £17.99. Had a new translation of Konstantin Vagin

Who, today, remembers Robert Vas? His Refuge England (1959), a partly autobiographical account of a Hungarian migrant trying to make sense of London—its confusing streets and dizzying profusion of sig

An illuminating peak behind the Iron Curtain

“As movers and the moved both know”, John Updike noted, “books are heavy freight ... They make us think twice about changing addresses.” Books: A manifesto, or, How to build a library begins with the

The Disappearing Act concerns a novelist in her fifties who lives in an unnamed European country and is on her way to a literary festival in an unnamed location. Her name is given only as “M”. We vagu