On the urging of a cave diver she knew, Ange Mlinko read Friday (1967), the revisionist Robinson Crusoe tale by Michel ...
Mineke Schipper draws on a lifetime’s study of stories and proverbs across the world to chart the ways in which ideas about ...
Can a circle, a two-dimensional object, deepen as well as enlarge? Can the façade of a church be “toothsome”? These and ...
The Philosophy of Translation begins with an anecdote. Damion Searls, at this point a young man pondering a career in ...
Editors and writers join Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark to talk through the week's issue. Subscribe for free via iTunes, Spotify and other podcast platforms ...
In Gaza, parents have taken to writing their children’s names on their legs in black marker pen so, if the family is ...
The failings of Nicholas II as a ruler are widely accepted by western historians, and even by those who praise his virtues as a husband and a father. In his new history of the end of Romanov rule, ...
The women in Pippa Goldschmidt’s new collection of short stories are overlooked, working on the sidelines, usually in a scientific capacity of some kind, while the men gain the glory. Her narratives ...
In his rollicking memoir A Pound of Paper (2002), the Australian writer John Baxter recalls being in a bookshop in Sydney one ...