Geoff Dyer is among the great uncategorizable prose writers of the past several decades and he also went to Oxford, albeit at ...

This week’s story, “ The Queen of Bad Influences ,” opens in 1913, in the English county of Gloucestershire, and is about a young woman called Constance who has recently left an all-girls’ school and ...

A new biography by Willard Sterne Randall shows how 18th-century Boston’s most popular businessman put his mark on the ...