The old reliables – Ulysses ... Robert McCrum’s 100 best novels, selecting English language fiction from 1678 to 2000, must have been a bit of fun to do, knowing there could be a bit of ...

is a Danish saga related in Old English. There would be no Chaucer without Petrarch; no Milton without Homer and Virgil; no Shakespeare without Ovid. Picking a mere 10 novels from the vast wealth ...

12-year-old basketball prodigies who discover the terrible consequences of breaking the rules. The book earned year-end “best of” recognition from Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly and School ...

James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s cold-war spymaster, majored in English at ... identity of the best spy novelist—John le Carré. The only question is which is his best book.