Geoff Dyer is known for his stylish sentences and diverse subject matter. He has written fiction, nonfiction and essays. He’s ...

Imagine this unlikely scenario: the President of the United States of America is a charlatan; he talks a lot, or rather ...

During protests in the US in the middle of 2020, a Predator drone circled in the sky above Minneapolis. Some 20,000ft below, ...

191pp. University of California Press. Paperback, £30 (US $34.95). Each spring, I teach a class on the Achaemenid Persian Empire. We spend the first few weeks looking at some very big stuff indeed – ...

All Mrs. Woolf’s fiction shows such an instinct for experiment that we may have to show cause why this new book should be called peculiarly experimental. “Jacob’s Room”, too, was an adventure. But ...

In his first major collection, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956), the American poet John Berryman addressed the first significant poet of seventeenth-century Puritan New England, both as fellow ...

In her introduction to The Selected James Simmons (1978), Edna Longley said that in Simmons’s poetry “art and life never look like becoming polite strangers”. He regarded Yeats’s insistence that a ...

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