Lost And Found
The great Jewish writer Emanuel Litvinoff's greatest novel has just been republished
Korchnoi Plays His Last Move
Viktor Korchnoi, who has died at the age of 85, defeated nine world champions but never managed to claim the title for himself
When Players Become Pawns
Accusations of off-board skulduggery can be a powerful tool of psychological warfare
Tell It Like It Is
Is language just a tool, or can it be an end as well as a means?
The Curse Of Power
The inside story of the Lib Dems in the coalition government is a brave attempt to explain where it all went wrong
There Will Be Blood
The realkommerz of global trade makes it difficult to avoid enriching dictatorships and tyrants
From Studio To Dark Room
From the birth of photography, its practitioners and artists fed off each other to find new ways of seeing
Prodigious Contest In Prospect
The two greatest chess prodigies of the age will soon face each other
But Have They Starved?
The Prose Factory is a spirited dash through British literary history — and the many ways writers have struggled to pay their bills
A Steppe In The Right Direction
Patrick Marber cuts Turgenev back to the essentials while Cumberbatch triumphs in a muddled Hamlet