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, ...

What a peculiar book this is. Peter York, best known for his cod-anthropological examin­ation of British society’s various snobby tribes, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), has turned his ...

Paul meets Rosa in a movie theatre in New York City. He puts his hand on her thigh in the dark, so she reacts by grabbing it, whacking him on the wrist, pouring her drink into his lap and telling him ...

The forty-two essays that Tom McAllister wrote for this book began as an attempt to unshackle himself from social media and its brain-rotting effects. He set strict parameters: one essay for every ...

The hegemony of the United States in the Americas – part of the “greatness” Donald Trump is so anxious to shore up or retrieve – has been a brief and surprising phenomenon. For observers who consider ...

Amanda Knox’s first memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, was published in 2013, just as her retrial for the murder of twenty-one-year-old Meredith Kercher was taking place in Italy. Her second memoir, Free: ...

Most of us would rather not think about death – our own or that of others. It is one of the most invisible, suppressed, negated and denied facts of life.