The dramatic advances in emergency medical care since the introduction, in the late 1950s, of modern approaches to ...

Williams’s Careless People is a compulsively readable account of the effects of social media on democracy. Facebook’s former director of global public policy, Wynn-Williams left the company in 2017.

Change is in the air – or at least it is at Rutgers University. This is where Richard Poirier established the much-admired journal Raritan in 1981; it has become, in the view of Poirier’s successor, ...

Katherine Rundell Seamus Heaney wrote, “We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves”; ...

As The Deserters draws to a close, the delegates at a scholarly symposium head out for dinner at a nearby restaurant. Fatigue and white wine combine to distract our narrator from conversation. She ...

Reviewing Ron Padgett’s poetry feels as wrong-headed as explaining a joke. Any analysis or even commentary runs the risk of unweaving the rainbow (as John Keats warns in Lamia of applying philo­sophy ...

Eimear McBride is captivated by the life and work of Joyce’s biographer; Mark Nayler is hot on the trail of the wolf who walked alone.

Katrina Porteous’s fourth collection of poems, Rhizodont, is like her third, Edge, in that both contain poetic responses to scientific research. “Book 1: Carboni­ferous”, which constitutes the ...

In his first major collection, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956), the American poet John Berryman addressed the first significant poet of seventeenth-century Puritan New England, both as fellow ...

For forty-seven years, the writer Charles Moseley lived with his wife in a Fenland village. She died, he remarried, and his new wife found a house in nearby Ely. To the Eel Island is his account of ...