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 ...

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, ...

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.

Geoff Dyer is known for his stylish sentences and diverse subject matter. He has written fiction, nonfiction and essays. He’s interested in film, art, photography, jazz and, above all, writers and ...

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 ...

In Cristina Rivera Garza’s Death Takes Me, reviewed by Lucy Popescu (In Brief, April 18), a character points out that “in Spanish, the word victim, or victima, is always feminine”. This is evidently ...

A Greek Orthodox morning prayer goes: “Holy Spirit, giver of life, present in all places and filling all things, come and abide in us”. “All places” and “all things” presumably include DNA, stars, ...