You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...

The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home ...

I t had been ​ twenty years since my last research trip to the British Library when, in November last year, I received an ...

Given what it sets out to do, it’s hard to fault The Thursday Murder Club. The sentences flow smoothly, the jokes ...

The first hour of Anora, Sean Baker says, belongs to the genre of romantic comedy. This makes interesting sense if ...

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As peripatetic​ as he was, Fred Sparks, who was then a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, didn’t cover the ...

The next morning, the city was silent. DC is openly hostile to Trump: more than 90 per cent of voters backed ...

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‘Even blindfolded,’ Emanuel Litvinoff wrote of the interwar East End in Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), ‘I’d have known where we were by the smell of the different streets – reek of rotten ...