Foucault in California

The unfinished story of a First Folio

The flame of conviction: Anthony Burgess on writing about D. H. Lawrence

John Coltrane, a creative obsessive with pop appeal

The self-made man: on the long and eventful life of Frederick Douglass

Golden Age of the Grift

The real Cyrano de Bergerac

Unmutual friend: How Charles Dickens tried to place his wife in an asylum

Remembrance of luncheons past

The Bodleian's ‘secret trove of obscene material’