The Northern Irish film-maker Mark Cousins has cultivated a wide and enthusiastic following among social media-minded cinephiles, but the whimsical documentarian’s penchant for beautifully narrated ...

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.

“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 ...

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

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 ...

Imagine this unlikely scenario: the President of the United States of America is a charlatan; he talks a lot, or rather blusters along, boosting himself as he goes; and eventually he declares war on ...

In his first major collection, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956), the American poet John Berryman addressed the first significant poet of seventeenth-century Puritan New England, both as fellow ...

It is no bad thing, necessarily, for a novelist to be at his own throat, but in the case of Edward St Aubyn, engaged in a career-long struggle with his own stylistic brilliance, the tensions have not ...

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 ...

640pp. University of Chicago Press. £32 (US $39.95). In 2011, builders in the Rio de Janeiro docklands uncovered the ruins of the Cais do Valongo, a wharf where, between 1780 and 1831, 800,000 ...

368pp. Cape. £18.99. In Spring he dwells at boldly mimetic length on James’s non-starter of a relationship with Katherine, who is having a muted mid-thirties crisis of her own. Although the novel’s ...

Toby Lichtig chats to Sam Leith about formative literature at Jewish Book Week and David Horspool meets Sue Prideaux, winner of this year’s Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize ...