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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many report still feeling like outsiders in the Netherlands. This legacy of the unspoken and unspeakable – of repression, in ...

Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he ...

On 19 September, in what turned out to be his final speech, Seyed Hassan Nasrallah repeated the message he had been sending ...

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 ...