Speaking of her late husband, Valerie Eliot once remarked “He felt he had paid too much to be a poet, that he had suffered ...

Book titles that begin “The Treasury of …” suggest a box that you open to find jewels inside. The Treasury of Folklore: ...

Standing in the full / glare of the war, I’m a surface / reflecting its awesome light”, Oksana Maksymchuk declares in Still ...

An ambitious novel of ideas, Aurélien Bellanger’s Les derniers jours du Parti socialiste (The Last Days of the Socialist ...

The hybrid is a strange concept. On the one hand it’s a commonplace, describing everything from cars to conferences. On the other hand, it is entangled with colonialism, where it has been used to ...

What many remember about the Vatican during the Second World War is the failure of Pope Pius XII to challenge or condemn the atrocities carried out by the Nazis against the Jews. What is less well ...

Steering the Craft is an updated edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s creative writing handbook, first published in 1998 and shaped by the workshops she delivered to students. Although the introduction ...

The publication in 1888 of the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío’s collection Azul changed the way the Spanish language was written ...

The American author Elaine Kraf (1946–2013), who was also a painter and special-needs educator, was interested in those who deviate from social norms. Her debut, I Am Clarence (1969), features a ...

J. S. Barnes trembles in his boots before the latest incarnation of a classic vampire tale and Mary C. Flannery on the practical magic of the medieval kitchen Vanessa Curtis is entranced by the ...

It is a courageous soul who would take on the challenge of writing a Life (even a partial Life) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The man lived a long time for his era, from 1646 to 1716. That is seventy ...