Frances Wilson

Zachary Leader’s compelling biography is a powerful portrait of the man, and also the masks

Everyone has heard of Joan Didion and few people of Eve Babitz, but when they became friends in 1967 it was Babitz with the big reputation

A Body Made of Glass tells the history of hypochondria from Hippocrates to John Donne, Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin and Woody Allen

Mary Beard’s latest book is the work of a lifetime

The similarities between the author and the murderer are striking, as O’Connell notes with increasing discomfort