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 blusters along, boosting himself as he goes; and eventually he declares war on ...

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

Fred Williams is one of a handful of Australian twentieth-century artists who are broadly known within their own country and have a reputation abroad.

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 ...

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 ...

In Cristina Rivera Garza’s Death Takes Me, reviewed by Lucy Popescu (In Brief, April 18), a character points out that “in Spanish, the word victim, or victima, is always feminine”. This is evidently ...