Prior to the First World War T. E. Hulme was one of the most original and striking creative personalities in England, strongly admired by both Pound and Eliot. Yet he ...

Bohemian, egoist and prophet of sensualism, Henry Miller remains to many writers and readers a literary lion. Born in Brooklyn in 1891, son of a tailor of German extraction, Miller ...

First published in 1996, Robert Ferguson’s controversial Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography is perhaps the most irreverent and critical of all the Ibsen biographies. Ferguson provides insight into Ibsen ...

The beginning of Robert Ferguson’s introduction is arresting. ‘If they’ve heard of him at all, people tend to know two things about Knut Hamsun: that he wrote Hunger ...