The most reticent and troubled member of the so-called New York School of Poets, James Schuyler (1923–91) gave his first ...

In Those Who Are About to Die, Harry Sidebottom recounts a story told by St Augustine of a pupil who detested the games but ...

About Time - Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein by Diana Kormos Buchwald & Michael D Gordin ...

Off the Rails is not the definitive history of HS2, but Gimson has clearly set out the sequence of decisions that have ...

New Tariff in Town - The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World by Philip Coggan ...

Many people are unlucky, but few have the ill fortune of Tsutomu Yamaguchi. An engineer with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, he was dispatched to Hiroshima for three months in 1945. On the morning of 6 ...

The Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s seventh short-story collection, Autocorrect, presents a world of Zoom calls, dating apps, selfie sticks, AI chatbots and reality shows, while also touching on the ...

‘The moon wanes and waxes, it is never steadfast’, wrote the author of Ancrene Wisse, a 13th-century guide for English anchoresses, ‘and signifies therefore worldly things that are as the moon ever ...

Grayson Perry once made a pot titled ‘Football Stands for Everything I Hate’. David Goldblatt might say the same thing. While Perry included the words ‘hair gel’ and ‘pub bores’ on his elegant ceramic ...

So much has been written about Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle that they are in danger of being buried under the weight of words. Richard Vinen has had the good idea of producing a relatively ...

People keep vanishing in C D Rose’s latest novel, We Live Here Now. The much-vaunted British artist Sigismunda Conrad falls out of art-world favour and is more or less forgotten. Her fixer, an Italian ...