Frances Wilson

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

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf reviewed