Oh, I thought you were a man!” were the words uttered by the pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford when he first met ...

I had always been faulty”, Tom Lee tells us halfway through this troubled memoir of his battle to remain on an even keel. The ...

In the late ninth century, an anonymous scribe in Aquitaine compiled a collection of thirty-one Latin poems. Among them is a ...

Frances Tanzer’s innovative and insightful approach to the postwar cultural reinvention of Vienna focuses on artists, ...

The title of Roisín O’Donnell’s debut novel refers to “that thing women do when they sense their baby is arriving soon” – grouting, hoovering, a sudden desire to redecorate the house. But in the case ...

440pp. Princeton University Press. £35 (US $39.95). Stephanie Sandler “The plot always thickens in winter / All roads lead right to it”, says a voice in Maria Stepanova’s book-length poem Holy Winter ...

The 250th anniversary of the death of Oliver Goldsmith at the age of forty-five passed last year with little comment or commemoration. But at Trinity College Dublin and the Irish embassy in London, ...

“When you’ve got no money problems and plenty of health problems, you end up living a very chaste sort of existence”, explains the narrator of Saou Ichikawa’s debut novel, Hunchback. “In another life, ...