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

Eimear McBride is captivated by the life and work of Joyce’s biographer; Mark Nayler is hot on the trail of the wolf who walked alone.

As The Deserters draws to a close, the delegates at a scholarly symposium head out for dinner at a nearby restaurant. Fatigue and white wine combine to distract our narrator from conversation. She ...

The notion of the universe as a book, an ancient trope that Ernst Robert Curtius traced in European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948), works in both directions. If the universe is a book, ...

176pp. Manderley Press. £19.99. Eighteen-sixteen was the year without a summer, as volcanic ash obscured the sun; it led to much misery but also some fine writing. On Lake Geneva, the notorious Lord ...

In reading Bird School, we are invited to share in Adam Nicolson’s admirable endeavour to increase his knowledge of birds and to redress the diminution of bird life around him. The author, who had ...

Katrina Porteous’s fourth collection of poems, Rhizodont, is like her third, Edge, in that both contain poetic responses to scientific research. “Book 1: Carboni­ferous”, which constitutes the ...

On the sticky dancefloor of a run-down student club, a tipsy, pregnant woman with a buzz cut dances in a bikini, “arms in the air, bent at the elbow … cradling her own head … rocking her neck from ...

Maggie Smith is the author of “Good Bones”, a poem advocating optimism in the face of the world’s horrors; it goes viral every time there is a disaster. In Dear Writer, she shares her tips for writing ...

Joseph Stalin died just over seventy-two years ago, on March 5, 1953. Incapacitated by strokes, he had not received timely medical treatment because colleagues were too scared to break into his dacha ...

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 ...