Katherine Rundell Seamus Heaney wrote, “We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves”; ...

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.

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 ...

“The dollar plays a similar role to that of the English language in global commerce”, writes Edward Chancellor in his lead review of three books devoted to American financial supremacy. “Both enjoy ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

Reviewing Ron Padgett’s poetry feels as wrong-headed as explaining a joke. Any analysis or even commentary runs the risk of unweaving the rainbow (as John Keats warns in Lamia of applying philo­sophy ...

Larissa Salmina, born in 1931, survived the Siege of Leningrad. She ate the neighbour’s Persian cat – disappointingly emaciated and crunchy. Her mother burnt the furniture, but not the books, as books ...

“I USED TO BE LIKE YOU” says the narrator in the viscerally disgusting body horror “Build a Body Like Mine”, the opening story in Eliza Clark’s first collection, which follows two darkly comedic ...