Mineke Schipper draws on a lifetime’s study of stories and proverbs across the world to chart the ways in which ideas about ...

Can a circle, a two-dimensional object, deepen as well as enlarge? Can the façade of a church be “toothsome”? These and ...

The Philosophy of Translation begins with an anecdote. Damion Searls, at this point a young man pondering a career in ...

In Gaza, parents have taken to writing their children’s names on their legs in black marker pen so, if the family is ...

In his rollicking memoir A Pound of Paper (2002), the Australian writer John Baxter recalls being in a bookshop in Sydney one ...

Toby Lichtig assesses the latest recreation of Bob Dylan, the man and the myth, and David Gallagher discusses an academic and spy who inspired the... Boris Dralyuk on a compelling portrait of the ...

Before he was a bestselling novelist, Walter Scott was that rare thing, a bestselling poet whose verse romances took the market and the public by storm; until, that is, Lord Byron outversed and ...

Following the end of the Cold War, between 1989 and 2009, over 300,000 Jewish emigrants from the former Soviet Union arrived in the US and Canada. This mass migration produced a gene­ration of “Soviet ...

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