On the urging of a cave diver she knew, Ange Mlinko read Friday (1967), the revisionist Robinson Crusoe tale by Michel ...

Can a circle, a two-dimensional object, deepen as well as enlarge? Can the façade of a church be “toothsome”? These and ...

Mineke Schipper draws on a lifetime’s study of stories and proverbs across the world to chart the ways in which ideas about ...

The Philosophy of Translation begins with an anecdote. Damion Searls, at this point a young man pondering a career in ...

In Gaza, parents have taken to writing their children’s names on their legs in black marker pen so, if the family is ...

In his rollicking memoir A Pound of Paper (2002), the Australian writer John Baxter recalls being in a bookshop in Sydney one ...

Toby Lichtig assesses the latest recreation of Bob Dylan, the man and the myth, and David Gallagher discusses an academic and spy who inspired the... Boris Dralyuk on a compelling portrait of the ...

You might imagine that the title of this volume is a typo for “Pope”. But the allusion, as the South American Pontiff, or Bishop of Rome (as he prefers to be called), reminds us, some way into the ...

The US was no great power at the turn of the nineteenth century. There was British Canada to the north, Spanish Florida to the south and French Louisiana to the west. There were Indians on both sides ...

Despite its shocking subject matter (rape, incest, suicide), Eimear McBride’s debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (TLS, June 14, 2013), was largely critiqued in terms of its use of language.

“Pen pal” is a term with a delightfully retro, innocent ring, evocative of a time when all mail was snail mail and when first-hand experience of foreign cultures was far less common. Alexis Peri’s ...