Blake Gopnik’s life of Andy Warhol is less the chronicle of an advance towards death than a protracted postmortem. Gopnik begins halfway through, at what must have seemed to Warhol like the end. In ...

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 ...

It seems to be the season of ‘double lives’. I have on my desk galleys of The Double Life of Paul de Man, the reader-proof doyen of deconstruction who began his career in Belgium during the Second ...

The purported motive for Alexander Lee’s spasmodically impressive and frequently pantomimic Ugly Renaissance is his conviction that historians and tour guides are serving up an idealised Apollonian ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...