With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...
In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain. David Abulafia goes in search of ...
If I want to walk along the river near where I live, I have to cross one of the busiest roads in west London. The only access is via an underpass, an enclosed tunnel where a female friend of mine was ...
In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain. David Abulafia goes in search of ...
One of my journalism professors, a gruff newspaper editor named Klaus Pohle, once posed a question about mass media that is both critical and unresolvable: where does the public interest end and the ...
Donald Trump himself and Trump-friendly elements of the US media have long promoted the legend that before turning to politics he was one of America’s greatest entrepreneurs, with a Midas touch in New ...
Andrew Miller’s moving new novel is set in the ‘Big Freeze’ of 1962–3, Britain’s coldest winter since 1739. From December through to February, there was no let-up. Snowdrifts formed walls that were ...
People who can list the wives of Henry VIII are often not aware that England was a republic for eleven years. For diehard monarchists, the period of the English Republic, ‘the Interregnum’, was a blip ...
Using black-and-white photographs printed directly onto the page, Hornby found a playful, metatextual way to illustrate his ...
Vigdis Hjorth’s novels are like major fires, destructive and difficult to contain. Set in the early 1990s, If Only, the story of a tempestuous love affair, burns violently from start to finish. Ida ...
The American novelist Helen Phillips’s speculative thriller The Need (2019) was longlisted for the National Book Award. The technique of mixing ordinary life with futuristic elements proved so ...
The penalty kick has served many purposes in books. In Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski’s stats-driven study Soccernomics, there’s a chapter on the shoot-out at the 2008 Champions League final, the ...
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