Sex and death with Tennessee Williams

In his two Pulitzer-winning plays Tennessee Williams puts the light on the shadowy corners of desire.

Review: The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai

A heaving, seething, raging novel full of life’s absurdities.

Review: A Room With A View by E. M. Forster

A classic novel of travel and Romance.

Review: The Story Of A New Name by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)

This second instalment of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet deepens and complicates the themes of the first.

Review: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

A monumental, meandering, magnificent tale of truth, love, beauty.

Review: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by David McDuff)

A deep dive into the glorious decline of Russian society.

Review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

There’s something haunted and occult about this otherwise godly classic.

Review: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

It’s about whales.

Review: Light by Eva Figes

A masterful, stroll-around-a-garden novella.

Review: Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler

An eerily prescient vision of the climate-ruined near future.