It is conceivable that torture will go on spreading underground until it is strong enough to break out once more and redouble the embitterments of classes and of races. If so, mankind is lost.
Michael Dibdin's detective Zen series sounds a melancholy note for an old Italy rife with political enemies.
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.
In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes mixes fact and fiction,
linking Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a wrongfully convicted Victorian
author.


