America, América is the by turns woeful, despairing and ironic tale of the USA’s sustained attempts to turn its southern ...

Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age by Peter Brooks; On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays by Henry James (Edited by ...

But during the Great Purge he was arrested and tortured; he confessed to having worked undercover for Russia’s enemies and ...

The money part is solid golden age. And, of course, now utterly vanished. Carter is from Ottawa, a sensible capital city of ...

A Memoir by Josephine Baker (Translated from French by Anam Zafar & Sophie Lewis); Josephine Baker’s Secret War: The African ...

It’s a bit late now; we’re a third of the way through and there’s a lot more of this to come.’ A lot of what comes in William ...

The days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...

That rough beast the Great American Novel has been slouching around since the 19th century in the form of hefty books by male authors, from Melville and Hemingway to Franzen and DeLillo. It’s always ...

His lisp cannot easily be transliterated. The letter ‘R’ starts somewhere at the back of his throat and stays there. Words containing the letter are, therefore, afflicted with a strange hiatus, an ...

In his 2014 essay ‘The Case for Reparations’, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote that compensating black Americans for the injustices of slavery ‘would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a ...

Norman Mailer’s new novel opens with a sequence so good you believe for a moment he may have written the book his friends and critics agreed was inside him. On the coast of Maine, lyrically described, ...

The existence of Fashion depends on people buying more clothes than they wear out. If a garment is replaced only when it is worn out there is no Fashion, if it is worn beyond its natural replacement ...