Katherine Rundell Seamus Heaney wrote, “We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves”; ...

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

Williams’s Careless People is a compulsively readable account of the effects of social media on democracy. Facebook’s former director of global public policy, Wynn-Williams left the company in 2017.

Change is in the air – or at least it is at Rutgers University. This is where Richard Poirier established the much-admired journal Raritan in 1981; it has become, in the view of Poirier’s successor, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

If you are seeking a book to celebrate a century of quantum mechanics, Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin’s Quantum Mechanics and Avant-Garde Music could be a refreshing answer. The composer, concert pianist and ...