In Northern Ireland, even today, whatever you choose to call the years between 1968 and 1998 – “The Troubles”, “the war”, “the armed struggle”, “the ...

Born in 1905 in a village west of Kingston, Jamaica, Una Marson had an idyllic childhood in some respects. The youngest of six, a favourite of her father, the local parson, and with an Irish ...

The Northern Irish film-maker Mark Cousins has cultivated a wide and enthusiastic following among social media-minded cinephiles, but the whimsical documentarian’s penchant for beautifully narrated ...

Linda Gordon is a unique figure in the field of US history. Since her Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A social history of birth control in America came out in 1976, she has produced several first-rate ...

Guillemots are brown-and-white seabirds. They can live to the age of forty and the females lay one uniquely patterned, pear-shaped speckled egg each year, always in the same spot on steep coastal ...

Stephen Glover’s review of Murder in Cairo by Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo (May 9), like the book he reviews, focuses on the role of individual journalists. “Patriotic journalists should not spy ...

Publishing fiction at a steady clip since her debut, Cold Earth (TLS, June 19, 2009), Sarah Moss has increasingly become a portraitist of what her latest protagonist calls “the dis-United Kingdom”.

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.

The Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) was born in Lwów, which – renamed Lviv – became part of Soviet Ukraine after the war. Poland was permanently changed – socially, politically and physically ...