Williams’s Careless People is a compulsively readable account of the effects of social media on democracy. Facebook’s former ...

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, ...

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

As The Deserters draws to a close, the delegates at a scholarly symposium head out for dinner at a nearby restaurant. Fatigue and white wine combine to distract our narrator from conversation. She ...

Katrina Porteous’s fourth collection of poems, Rhizodont, is like her third, Edge, in that both contain poetic responses to scientific research. “Book 1: Carboni­ferous”, which constitutes the ...

Eimear McBride is captivated by the life and work of Joyce’s biographer; Mark Nayler is hot on the trail of the wolf who walked alone.

The notion of the universe as a book, an ancient trope that Ernst Robert Curtius traced in European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948), works in both directions. If the universe is a book, ...

176pp. Manderley Press. £19.99. Eighteen-sixteen was the year without a summer, as volcanic ash obscured the sun; it led to much misery but also some fine writing. On Lake Geneva, the notorious Lord ...

In reading Bird School, we are invited to share in Adam Nicolson’s admirable endeavour to increase his knowledge of birds and to redress the diminution of bird life around him. The author, who had ...

Maggie Smith is the author of “Good Bones”, a poem advocating optimism in the face of the world’s horrors; it goes viral every time there is a disaster. In Dear Writer, she shares her tips for writing ...

Where to begin with a book about a book about the writer of a book regularly acknowledged as the most important novel of the twentieth century? It is a question that will surely dog every reviewer of ...

On the sticky dancefloor of a run-down student club, a tipsy, pregnant woman with a buzz cut dances in a bikini, “arms in the air, bent at the elbow … cradling her own head … rocking her neck from ...