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 ...

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 ...

The budgetary chaos that has overwhelmed the UK’s High Speed 2 (HS2) project should lead to a period of deep reflection within the transport industry. It highlights a profound lack of economic, and ...

Lukas Dorn, the central character of Hugo Hamilton’s new novel, talks to the sea and the sea talks back to him. Recently separated from his wife, Katia, who has remained in Berlin, he has returned to ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Anyone expecting a conventional history of collecting in A Noble Madness will be disabused of the idea in the first few pages. The book opens with Norman Bates, the murderous assembler of taxidermy in ...