Can a circle, a two-dimensional object, deepen as well as enlarge? Can the façade of a church be “toothsome”? These and ...

The Philosophy of Translation begins with an anecdote. Damion Searls, at this point a young man pondering a career in ...

Mineke Schipper draws on a lifetime’s study of stories and proverbs across the world to chart the ways in which ideas about ...

In Gaza, parents have taken to writing their children’s names on their legs in black marker pen so, if the family is ...

After retiring as co-editorial director of Publisher’s Weekly in 2014, Michael Coffey read almost nothing but books by or ...

In his rollicking memoir A Pound of Paper (2002), the Australian writer John Baxter recalls being in a bookshop in Sydney one ...

Toby Lichtig assesses the latest recreation of Bob Dylan, the man and the myth, and David Gallagher discusses an academic and spy who inspired the... Boris Dralyuk on a compelling portrait of the ...

Ever since Russia’s reannexation of Crimea in 2014, the international conversation has centred on the rival claims of Russia and Ukraine to the territory. Yet as the Ukrainian government belatedly ...

There has been a great deal of institutional handwringing since the Australian writer Richard Flanagan won – and politely accepted – the 2024 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction in November, but ...