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

For Iago in Othello, to be robbed of a “good name” is to be “poor indeed”. In Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare, Rory Loughnane and Willy Maley contend ...

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, ...

In her ninth novel, Helen Oyeyemi continues to sound and write like nobody else. While earlier books (the author began publishing barely out of her teens) twisted fairy tales into new and unexpected ...

The great fires of intellectual life which burn at Oxford and at Cambridge are so well tended and long established that it is difficult to feel the wonder of this concentration upon immaterial things ...

These dozen essays on cycling are more Sunday spin than Tour stage: mellow reflections on the joys and, occasionally, frustrations of the two-wheeled ...

Every student must have read with delight those opening pages of Dr J. Dover Wilson’s “Manuscript of Hamlet” in which the author drives us back from the temptation of immediate tinkering with the ...

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

In Against Decolonisation: Campus culture wars and the decline of the West (Polity), Doug Stokes lays bare clearly and concisely the arguments surrounding legacies of the past that are nowadays ...

Koch’s bacillus – the cause of tuberculosis – was identified in 1882, earning the microbiologist Robert Koch the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. It was an early step on the road to the mastery ...

As in Sally Rooney’s previous novels, the main characters in Intermezzo fall in love quickly, tidily and passionately. They meet, their outfits are described, they exchange clipped dialogue and are ...

The Argentine novelist, journalist and librettist Pola Oloixarac pulls no punches. (Unimpressed by Han Kang’s recent Nobel prize, she condemned the new laureate as a “middle-brow author” who writes in ...