John Bayley

The Master

by Colm Tóibín

Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century

by Graham Robb

Queer Street: Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947–1985

by James McCourt

Pushkin: A Biography

by T.J. Binyon

Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry

by Anthony Hecht

Collected Later Poems

by Anthony Hecht

Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath

by Helen Vendler

Speaking of Beauty

by Denis Donoghue

Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter

by Alison Lurie

Pushkin's Children: Writings on Russia and Russians

by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russianby Jamey Gambrell, with an introduction by Alma Guillermoprieto

The Slynx

by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

by Orlando Figes

Laurence Sterne: A Life

by Ian Campbell Ross

The Long Recessional:The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling

by David Gilmour

The Complete Works of Isaac Babel

edited by Nathalie Babel, translated from the Russian by Peter Constantine, with an introduction by Cynthia Ozick

Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey

by Janet Malcolm

The Complete Early Short Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume One (1880–82): 'He and She' and Other Stories

translated from the Russian by Peter Sekirin

The Biographer's Tale

A.S. Byatt

On Histories and Stories

A.S. Byatt

Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation

Jeffrey Meyers

Anil's Ghost

by Michael Ondaatje

William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius

by Anthony Holden

Shakespeare's Language

by Frank Kermode

Music and Silence

by Rose Tremain

Gertrude and Claudius

by John Updike

The Romantics

by Pankaj Mishra