Geoff Dyer is known for his stylish sentences and diverse subject matter. He has written fiction, nonfiction and essays. He’s ...

Imagine this unlikely scenario: the President of the United States of America is a charlatan; he talks a lot, or rather ...

During protests in the US in the middle of 2020, a Predator drone circled in the sky above Minneapolis. Some 20,000ft below, ...

In her introduction to The Selected James Simmons (1978), Edna Longley said that in Simmons’s poetry “art and life never look like becoming polite strangers”. He regarded Yeats’s insistence that a ...

All Mrs. Woolf’s fiction shows such an instinct for experiment that we may have to show cause why this new book should be called peculiarly experimental. “Jacob’s Room”, too, was an adventure. But ...

191pp. University of California Press. Paperback, £30 (US $34.95). Each spring, I teach a class on the Achaemenid Persian Empire. We spend the first few weeks looking at some very big stuff indeed – ...

In his first major collection, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956), the American poet John Berryman addressed the first significant poet of seventeenth-century Puritan New England, both as fellow ...

In the title story of Diabelli – a collection of short fiction by the Swiss writer Hermann Burger (1942–89), first published in 1979 – a washed-up prestidigitator describes the linguistic traits ...

Gaming is a serious business. This vast industry is increasingly an area of academic study, with conferences, journals and university modules dedicated to it. Robert Houghton leads one such module at ...