About Time - Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein by Diana Kormos Buchwald & Michael D Gordin ...

I shall not insist here upon Mark Twain as a moralist,’ Howells wrote, ‘though I warn the reader that if he leaves out of the ...

New Tariff in Town - The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World by Philip Coggan ...

The most reticent and troubled member of the so-called New York School of Poets, James Schuyler (1923–91) gave his first ...

The Inside Story of HS2 by Sally Gimson ...

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‘Mindfulness’ is due a backlash, surely. And it starts here. Sort of. The authors, both psychologists, and one an experienced meditator with a lifelong interest in spiritual matters, originally set ...

D J Taylor: Fiction, Feminism & Fake Vicars - A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings ...

No doubt I will not be the last to remark that this is the most fascinating book Patrick McGrath did not write. It has all the ingredients of one of McGrath’s icily stylish novels: madness, violence, ...

Kit de Waal’s second novel, The Trick to Time, begins with Mona, a sixty-year-old Irish immigrant, standing by her window in the middle of the night. She notices a man in the building across from her ...

Blake Gopnik’s life of Andy Warhol is less the chronicle of an advance towards death than a protracted postmortem. Gopnik begins halfway through, at what must have seemed to Warhol like the end. In ...

With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...