A journey towards faith
A novel set during the Algerian war has chilling relevance to what is happening in the Middle East today
Lionel Trilling: America’s Matthew Arnold
The great critic’s letters reveal his struggles with anti-Semitism and disillusion with Marxism
New way to tell a terrible story
New graphic novels take on difficult subject matter: the lives of Hannah Arendt and Anne Frank
Acerbic enemy of cowardice
The latest volume of Frederic Raphael's diaries is a book full of bite and feline gossip
The link between art and heart
A new Barbican exhibition explores how two were often better than one in the creative process
Escaping the Moscow ghetto
How a brilliant young Russian mathematician was blocked by blatant Soviet anti-Semitism
Enter the Professor, Putin’s Balkan stooge
The maverick movie director Emir Kusturica backs Russian expansionism in the Balkans
Debt and damnation: Islam in Dante
Edward Said accused the poet of Orientalist prejudice — but he owed much to Muslim tradition
The road to redemption
Two zeitgeisty novels about belonging
Through the plashy fen
Stella Tillyard's novel The Great Level is a strange and elusive beast