'I inadvertently saw "Saturn Devouring His Son" in my early teens and it was a very unsettling thing to come across.'

@robinsimonbaj on Goya.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/he-painted-it-black

'The narrative moves fluently between the raffish ... life he was living there, his main love affair and friendships – most of them kept up for a lifetime – and his journalism.'

Jeremy Treglown weighs up Hermione Lee's biography of Tom Stoppard.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-long-road-to-leopoldstadt