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 ...

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 ...

Germany enjoys the reputation of having confronted its Nazi past with impressive forthrightness, its cities filled with memorials to the victims of the Holocaust. But when it came to bringing former ...

Alice Chadwick’s impressive debut novel unfolds within a twenty-four-hour period in a nameless small town in 1980s England. Teenagers, out on a hot summer evening, wander between the weir, a party, ...

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 ...

Georges Perec’s novella Les Choses (1965; Things, 1990, translated by David Bellos) was a response to the golden years of the postwar boom. Subtitled Une histoire des années soixante (A story of the ...

The non-scientific like to embellish science with drama. It makes incomprehensible achievements more accessible. Legend has it that Archimedes’ eureka moment about the discovery of buoyancy came to ...

On the urging of a cave diver she knew, Ange Mlinko read Friday (1967), the revisionist Robinson Crusoe tale by Michel Tournier. Though she admired the novel, she was horrified at the premiss of ...

Reading, we all know, is a peculiar act. It takes us out of ourselves into realms we might otherwise have missed – deeper, wider, stranger, perhaps launching us backwards or forwards in time, or into ...

What many remember about the Vatican during the Second World War is the failure of Pope Pius XII to challenge or condemn the atrocities carried out by the Nazis against the Jews. What is less well ...

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 ...