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

Geoff Dyer is known for his stylish sentences and diverse subject matter. He has written fiction, nonfiction and essays. He’s ...

Days to Remember Vanessa Curtis celebrates a century of ‘Mrs Dalloway’; Claire Lowdon on the capacious diaries of Helen Garner ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ...

191pp. University of California Press. Paperback, £30 (US $34.95). Each spring, I teach a class on the Achaemenid Persian Empire. We spend the first few weeks looking at some very big stuff indeed – ...

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 ...

Paul meets Rosa in a movie theatre in New York City. He puts his hand on her thigh in the dark, so she reacts by grabbing it, whacking him on the wrist, pouring her drink into his lap and telling him ...

“It does not harm people to cry”, counselled Diana, Princess of Wales, who did so in public, but “there seems to be a curious conspiracy in adults to ...

Hard power, soft belief and the future of the West 320pp. Bodley Head. £25. Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska The most revealing moment in The Technological Republic arrives early on. The ...

During a speech in Florida in February 2025, Donald Trump reflected on the devastating power of nuclear weapons. “The power is so enormous”, he declared. “You ...

Agustina Bazterrica’s novels place the reader, again and again, at the end of the world. Her subjects are loss and monstrosity, societal breakdown and its aftermath. Her characters are tolerant of ...

224pp. Other Press. Paperback, £16.99 (US $17.99). Naturally, Andrea finds all this irksome, and not conducive to a good documentary, but then she is a tricky customer herself. Contrarian and self- ...