Boxing has died many deaths. Nearly eradicated by legal challenges in the first half of the nineteenth century, prizefighting was rescued only by the ...

440pp. Princeton University Press. £35 (US $39.95). Stephanie Sandler “The plot always thickens in winter / All roads lead right to it”, says a voice in Maria Stepanova’s book-length poem Holy Winter ...

To Albert Camus, Amsterdam’s concentric waterways resembled the circles of hell. His protagonist in The Fall (1956), a “judge- penitent” who whiles away his days in a seedy sailors’ bar on the Zeedijk ...

Some debates just run and run. Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, thought that the economic inefficiency of slavery acted as a drag anchor on growth. In the other corner, Karl Marx argued in ...

Flesh has a thousand sons but I have one. He plays with a pig’s rib he has gnawed all the gray meat from. How do you know it lived a long enough life? how do you know it won’t come back angry? He ...

Toby Lichtig chats to Sam Leith about formative literature at Jewish Book Week and David Horspool meets Sue Prideaux, winner of this year’s Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize ...

“If you see me on the scaffolding of a house under construction … I’m Mario Fagiolo. If, instead, you see me belly up in the field, tickling the clouds with a blade of grass between my teeth, make no ...

Veroniki Dalakoura (b.1952) first came to the notice of her translator, John Taylor, after their mutual friend Elias Petropoulos alerted him to her work. It is easy to see how Petropoulos, bard of the ...

Darkness everywhere. Night pervades, then dies.Now kerb sweepers, bread vans and early trafficrumble by my window-side bed while rain-musicfizzles on slate roofs as dawn pours inside.An alarm squawks ...

The late Derek Parfit imagined the following choice. We could carefully steward our planet’s bounties, investing in infrastructure and renewable energy while leaving resources for future generations.