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

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

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 ...

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

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

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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 ...

‘This is the Nile and I’m a liar.’ These are the opening words of an amazing play by Anne Carson, first performed in 2019. The statement is in one sense correct. The speaker is nowhere near Egypt and ...

Leaves ticket down, no avalanche, A gangrene inches through the bark. Fruit trees are short-lived. So we’d heard.

Immanuel Kant was against revolutions. In 1793 he described them as the work of ‘political criminals’ and ‘injustice in the highest degree’. He accepted, on the other hand, that they sometimes turned ...

In an essay on scholarly ‘necrophilia’, published in 2021, the historian of science Lorraine Daston noted that writing histories of their own disciplines is often an excuse for scholars to commune ...

Peggy Guggenheim had an ‘excessively unhappy’ childhood. ‘I have no pleasant memories of any kind,’ she wrote in her memoir, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict (1946). She was biting ...