Katherine Rundell Seamus Heaney wrote, “We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves”; ...

The dramatic advances in emergency medical care since the introduction, in the late 1950s, of modern approaches to ...

Williams’s Careless People is a compulsively readable account of the effects of social media on democracy. Facebook’s former director of global public policy, Wynn-Williams left the company in 2017.

Change is in the air – or at least it is at Rutgers University. This is where Richard Poirier established the much-admired journal Raritan in 1981; it has become, in the view of Poirier’s successor, ...

“What if I just write about the kids?” Andrea Elliott suggested to her editor as she embarked on a study of homelessness. Invisible Child: Poverty, survival and hope in New York City (Hutchinson ...

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 ...

The memoir My Good Bright Wolf avoids the first person in favour of the second. But that “you” does not refer to the reader; it refers to the author, Sarah Moss. “You didn’t have a daily allocation, ...

Visit the Times Bookshop to purchase the books below DAVID ABULAFIA In Courage and Compassion: A Jewish boyhood in German-occupied Greece (Berghahn), Tony Molho, a celebrated historian of Renaissance ...

By the standards of most Americans at the time the Clinton administration was a success. The US achieved high rates of economic growth, with increases in ...

336pp. Yale University Press. £25. All this was accomplished in poorly paid and often insecure employment as librarians, administrators and, ultimately, professors. Jacob was also a diplomat, part of ...

Around 1970 I discovered that the name of Robert Darnton had already entered Oxford folklore. I was preparing to start a doctoral thesis at the university ...

How a Scottish philosopher became an icon of American capitalism 384pp. Princeton University Press. £30 (US $35). Locke and Smith were both touchy about their reputations and invested in their ...