The publication in 1888 of the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío’s collection Azul changed the way the Spanish language was written. Darío became the representative poet of modernismo, a movement that ...

Caroline Vout is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and director of Cambridge's Museum of Classical Archaeology ...

Edward Wilson-Lee's most recent book is A History of Water: Being an account of a murder, an epic and two visions of global history, 2022 ...

I came back from the UK to the USA, from the icy cold to the icy cold. The snow and ice have been so bad here that almost everyone is working from home, events have been widely cancelled (including ...

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 ...

Authorship is a singular business, or is usually thought to be so. We reckon that there are practical justifications for writers’ supposed preference for working alone – although there are also some ...

Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam is a series of impossible elegies. The poems respond to the recovery from the River Thames in 2001 of the torso of a Black boy, named Adam by police officers. The unknown child ...

Lynne Tillman’s American Genius, a Comedy follows a woman over the course of a day during her stay in an artist’s retreat. The woman doesn’t use the term “artist’s retreat”, but she does call the ...

Precious little is merciful about the country in which Anna McCormick, the first-person narrator of A. L. Kennedy’s latest novel, finds herself. Anna, a primary school teacher formerly known as the ...

Recommending that readers start a book by skipping from its beginning to its end is an unusual thing to do, but then Nicholas Fox Weber’s new biography of Piet Mondrian is not a usual book. Its ...