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

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 ...

It is so nice to see my old Cambridge colleague Robert Tombs turning his hand in retirement to British history and culture war (May 9). I appreciate that, not being familiar with eighteenth-century ...

Every student must have read with delight those opening pages of Dr J. Dover Wilson’s “Manuscript of Hamlet” in which the author drives us back from the temptation of immediate tinkering with the ...

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 ...

As in Sally Rooney’s previous novels, the main characters in Intermezzo fall in love quickly, tidily and passionately. They meet, their outfits are described, they exchange clipped dialogue and are ...

“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 ...

Top of Barbara Kingsolver’s list of writing tips (compiled in 2015 for Writers Write): quit smoking in the hope of growing old. Why? “It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and ...

According to one outline narrative of British literary history, lyric had displaced epic as the dominant poetic genre by the early nineteenth century. Out with “Man’s First Disobedience”, “Arms, and ...

The subject of BBC investigative journalist Hannah Barnes’s book is the Tavistock and Portman Trust’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) in London. GIDS is slated for closure this year, ...

344pp. Cambridge University Press. £95 (US $125). Louise Curran, George Justice and Sören Hammerschmidt, editors “I beg you to send me immediately the remaining Vols:”, Henry Fielding wrote to Samuel ...