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 ...

Claire Keegan is not prolific. Her debut collection of short stories, Antarctica (1999), was followed by a second collection, Walk the Blue Fields, in 2007. A longer story, Foster, appeared as a ...

For liberals the recent transformation of universities into institutions devoted to the eradication of thought crime must seem paradoxical. In the past higher education was avowedly shaped by an ideal ...

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In Courage and Compassion: A Jewish boyhood in German-occupied Greece (Berghahn), Tony Molho, a celebrated historian of Renaissance Italy, traces his journeys as a small boy hidden from the Nazis in ...

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 ...

It is now commonplace for publishers to include a letter from the author in advance reading copies, something obligingly explicative. The hot-pink review ...

We know that she is French, well paid, heterosexual and married with children. We also know that her sexual fantasy revolves around a woman with whom she can “fly away”: I leave, I leave everything, I ...

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 ...

Auguste-Maurice Barrès, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Maxim Gorky and Ding Ling – what connects these four disparate figures? According to Simon Ings they are all authors who wielded their “creative weaponry” ...

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