Books

Illustrations by Miki Lowe One way to gain insight into someone’s psyche is to read what they wrote when they were 13. For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that’s his very first...

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Decades ago, in the last days of the Carter administration, I spent a mean season living in Three Rivers, Texas. A hundred or so miles north of the border, between...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and...

About midway through Christine Murphy’s debut novel, “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” her protagonist, Sarah Common, tells a guy she’s dating that rape-revenge movies don’t work. “Action movies are man...

As Reacher returns for Season 3, it’s with Prime Video’s announcement that it’s already been renewed for a fourth season. The Nick Santora-developed series adapts Persuader this time, the seventh...

Boris Epshteyn, Donald Trump’s forty-­year-old Russian-­born legal adviser, came on to the Microsoft Teams call with his video off. Then his screen came to life in a sudden reveal. Bearish,...

Parents, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the Dog Man movie is now available to buy and rent at home. The bad news is...

Modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf understood that we cannot depict life on the page precisely the way we experience it; she experimented with chronology and language to capture the...

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir raided bookstores and seized 668 books linked to a major Islamic organisation in the disputed region, where strict controls on the press have escalated in recent...