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, ...

“What if I just write about the kids?” Andrea Elliott suggested to her editor as she embarked on a study of homelessness. Invisible Child: Poverty, survival and hope in New York City (Hutchinson ...

Visit the Times Bookshop to purchase the books below DAVID ABULAFIA In Courage and Compassion: A Jewish boyhood in German-occupied Greece (Berghahn), Tony Molho, a celebrated historian of Renaissance ...

336pp. Yale University Press. £25. All this was accomplished in poorly paid and often insecure employment as librarians, administrators and, ultimately, professors. Jacob was also a diplomat, part of ...

How a Scottish philosopher became an icon of American capitalism 384pp. Princeton University Press. £30 (US $35). Locke and Smith were both touchy about their reputations and invested in their ...

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 ...

By the standards of most Americans at the time the Clinton administration was a success. The US achieved high rates of economic growth, with increases in ...

On the shores of the Arabian Sea in western Pakistan, Gwadar was once an out-of-the-way fishing town. Since 2015 Chinese investment has transformed it into Gwadar Port City, maritime terminus of the ...

When does a novel actually begin? Is it on the title page or with the first line of the story itself? And what about the “paratext” – things like cover ...