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, ...

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

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

Paul meets Rosa in a movie theatre in New York City. He puts his hand on her thigh in the dark, so she reacts by grabbing it, whacking him on the wrist, pouring her drink into his lap and telling him ...

A Greek Orthodox morning prayer goes: “Holy Spirit, giver of life, present in all places and filling all things, come and abide in us”. “All places” and “all things” presumably include DNA, stars, ...

On a bright, chilly morning in Cambridge, England, a few weeks ago – as a New Yorker “Talk of the Town” piece might have it – about 150 people gathered at the University of Cambridge’s Computer ...

640pp. University of Chicago Press. £32 (US $39.95). In 2011, builders in the Rio de Janeiro docklands uncovered the ruins of the Cais do Valongo, a wharf where, between 1780 and 1831, 800,000 ...

Agustina Bazterrica’s novels place the reader, again and again, at the end of the world. Her subjects are loss and monstrosity, societal breakdown and its aftermath. Her characters are tolerant of ...

368pp. Cape. £18.99. In Spring he dwells at boldly mimetic length on James’s non-starter of a relationship with Katherine, who is having a muted mid-thirties crisis of her own. Although the novel’s ...

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 ...