Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer aside, nuclear weapons do not tend to attract the popular attention they ...

The task of the historian is often to shake the foundations of familiar ideas, and Josephine Quinn assumes that role in How ...

Born in Washington DC in 1864, Richard Dorsey Mohun grew up during the gilded age of US expansionism after the Civil War, ...

344pp. Oxford University Press. £54 (US $83). The chapters address the range of Carson’s strategies in her various books: creative criticism, fictional essays, “speculative form” and“open translation” ...

Richard Sennett’s The Performer starts small, “On an AIDS ward”. Sennett’s assistant Charles, a theatre director and now patient at St Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, had previously directed ...

Rosalind Brown’s debut novel follows a day in the life of Annabel, an Oxford student writing an essay on Shakespeare’s sonnets. Her routine is both peaceful and punitive. Annabel rises at 6am to “get ...

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As we know from Covid, case numbers are only one measure of a disease’s impact. In 2001 Britain experienced its worst-ever outbreak of foot-and-mouth. To stop the spread, farms were quarantined, areas ...

Two men, one an investigative journalist, the other a successful British businessman, stare at each other across the boardroom table at the offices of a London law firm. But Carter-Ruck is not any old ...

In a supplementary essay of 1815 William Wordsworth described The Prelude as “the introduction of a new element into the intellectual universe”. His long autobiographical poem, intended as the porch ...

This book is a landmark contribution to Old Norse-Icelandic studies, positioning the “vast and infinitely varied” literatures of Iceland in the context of the wider diaspora of people who spoke, wrote ...