The most reticent and troubled member of the so-called New York School of Poets, James Schuyler (1923–91) gave his first ...

In Those Who Are About to Die, Harry Sidebottom recounts a story told by St Augustine of a pupil who detested the games but ...

About Time - Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein by Diana Kormos Buchwald & Michael D Gordin ...

Off the Rails is not the definitive history of HS2, but Gimson has clearly set out the sequence of decisions that have ...

New Tariff in Town - The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World by Philip Coggan ...

Benjamin Wood’s new novel opens in Longferry, a town on the northwest coast, with an unforgettable image of a young working man, Thomas Flett, plying a well-nigh obsolete trade – that of ‘seascraping’ ...

Grayson Perry once made a pot titled ‘Football Stands for Everything I Hate’. David Goldblatt might say the same thing. While Perry included the words ‘hair gel’ and ‘pub bores’ on his elegant ceramic ...

The Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s seventh short-story collection, Autocorrect, presents a world of Zoom calls, dating apps, selfie sticks, AI chatbots and reality shows, while also touching on the ...

It’s twenty years since James Shapiro published 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, which fused literary criticism with political and social history in bravura fashion. Shapiro vigorously ...

So much has been written about Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle that they are in danger of being buried under the weight of words. Richard Vinen has had the good idea of producing a relatively ...