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

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

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, ...

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 ...

In Against Decolonisation: Campus culture wars and the decline of the West (Polity), Doug Stokes lays bare clearly and concisely the arguments surrounding legacies of the past that are nowadays ...

In the autumn of 1900, the twenty-four-year-old Rainer Maria Rilke was suffering from writer’s block. He had recently returned from the second of two trips to Russia, and it was beginning to dawn on ...

It is 2022, and Phyl, after completing her university degree, has returned home to live with her parents in the quaintly named village of Rookthorne, from ...

Koch’s bacillus – the cause of tuberculosis – was identified in 1882, earning the microbiologist Robert Koch the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. It was an early step on the road to the mastery ...

Visit the Times Bookshop to purchase the books below DAVID ABULAFIA In Courage and Compassion: A Jewish boyhood in German-occupied Greece (Berghahn), Tony Molho, a celebrated historian of Renaissance ...

The Argentine novelist, journalist and librettist Pola Oloixarac pulls no punches. (Unimpressed by Han Kang’s recent Nobel prize, she condemned the new laureate as a “middle-brow author” who writes in ...

“What if I just write about the kids?” Andrea Elliott suggested to her editor as she embarked on a study of homelessness. Invisible Child: Poverty, survival and hope in New York City (Hutchinson ...

For decades Karl Schlögel has been exploring aspects of the Soviet experience: as well as writing prolifically on Russian history, he is a seasoned ...