Books

It gave the world Freud and a host of cultural figures. But as a new book celebrates Austria’s capital, what about its footballers?

Actor Millie Bobby Brown used a co-writer on a novel telling a family story. What’s so wrong with that?

Back then, we turned away boats and set up camps - so what has changed?

In an exclusive extract from his latest book, Rory Stewart describes how his path to government ended in Liz Truss’s office

The translations of familiar film and book titles into different languages can be fascinating, comical and often downright bizarre

Almost 800 public libraries have shut their doors since the Conservatives came to power. That is 800 too many

As Rimbaud’s masterpiece A Season In Hell turns 150, reappraising the short life and wild times of a talented, toxic “damned soul”

Their Brexit is a disaster. But rather than admit it, they’re now fighting a rearguard action to stop the rest of us from putting it right

A new photography book revels in the past of F1’s most famous team. But what would their founder make of their uncertain future?

The former PM can’t alter the fact that she’s just as much to blame as those she’s pointing the finger at

Full of intriguing quirks and anecdotes, Andrew Martin’s Metropolitain is nothing short of a love letter to a subterranean railway

For the author Maylis de Kerangal, reading one of her books in another language is like hearing a familiar tune on a new instrument

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Italian writer Veronica Raimo’s remarkable Lost On Me is yet another example of why we need more translated European fiction

As the World Cup looms, rugby union is in flux. What remains constant is the beauty of many of its European homes

From the ancient Mediterranean through 1960s Ireland to modern-day Appalachia, reads that will transport you

Few writers have been able to distil the world’s most complex themes and turn them into absorbing fiction as well as Conrad

What I am discovering, in re-reading his novels, is the immense capacity not only of his mind, but of his humanity

Migrants from north Africa are trying to walk across the Alps. And many are dying in the attempt

A new book rediscovers the power and subtlety of Carel Fabritius, the forgotten master of the Dutch golden age

Serial liars, such as Boris Johnson, don’t want you to know what they’re up to. The late Harry G Frankfurt’s writing can help us call them out

No-one else wrote like the Czech author, a man who rejected our ‘foolish certainties’ and defined the European novel for the modern age

The death of the Czech-French novelist made me wonder if I exiled myself, just to get out of Ronald Reagan’s America

Whatever her outlet, the Spanish writer always derived immense pleasure from reactions to her work and never lost her gratitude

The author lives on in a Barcelona conference which asks what he would make of the upcoming Spanish election and Franco’s legacy

A new strain of writing, that engages with the mundane things of life, is more profound than it may first appear

When the head of France’s collaborating Vichy government appeared in court, he remained a mystery for many who were there

Ben Judah’s superb This Is Europe is a tour through the continent’s underbelly, giving voice to the exploited and marginalised

One night in 1989, the greatest gymnast in the world tried to escape from communist Romania

The High Court’s ruling on Maya Forstater is good news for everyone

If democracies continue to produce such dysfunctional leaders, the only beneficiaries will be authoritarian states with their repressive, brutal alternative

Marking the centenary of a book whose roots run far wider than just Dublin