Thinking about my forthcoming trip to Paris, I’ve been looking for literature that will evoke a real sense of the place. To this end, I...

Last time I ended with thoughts on the complex masculinities explored through Colm Tóibín’s Orestes in his novel House of Names. This...

It’s very fashionable at the moment to rewrite Greek Myths. Perhaps Margaret Atwood began it with The Penelopiad, her 2005 rewriting of...