In May 2023, I resigned as a (part-time) immigration judge after twenty years in the job. It was less a matter of conscience, ...

It would seem obvious that Watson’s priority is to manifest a voice, but this sort of punctuation addresses the eye ...

At Yale, where Vance felt like a ‘cultural alien’, he learned that he could entertain his classmates with Mamaw and Papaw ...

W here you have ​ a girl and a looking-glass, or – in the case of one of Eley Williams’s short stories – a woman who sees her ...

Six weeks after the start of the Second World War, the British government lifted the colour bar on military ...

The pieces in Wrong Norma are not formally linked but interesting connections among them can be found in the idea ...

Florette, after storming to Paris to split them up, discovers that Laurence’s mother is a skiing friend of George V’s and ...

Derrida opened it by reading out the ‘famous passage’ that was to serve as the ‘matrix’ for the entire series: Kant’s attempt ...

Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

The plum tree’s dying branch by branch, A candelabra going dark. Leaves ticket down, no avalanche, A gangrene inches through ...

The foul-mouthed, mean-spirited peasant Marcolf was one of the most well-known literary characters in late medieval Europe. He appears in many poetic works from the 9th century onwards, but it’s in ...

In the later decades of the last century, a new wave of ideas broke across the study of literature throughout the world. Known simply as ‘theory’, it ranged from structuralism to feminism, semiotics ...