The publication in 1888 of the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío’s collection Azul changed the way the Spanish language was written ...

The American author Elaine Kraf (1946–2013), who was also a painter and special-needs educator, was interested in those who deviate from social norms. Her debut, I Am Clarence (1969), features a ...

London in 1984 was a city of crumbling council estates, gleaming dockside developments, radical music festivals, antiracist protests and police violence. It was not a single capital city, Stephen ...

Lynne Tillman’s American Genius, a Comedy follows a woman over the course of a day during her stay in an artist’s retreat. The woman doesn’t use the term “artist’s retreat”, but she does call the ...

Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam is a series of impossible elegies. The poems respond to the recovery from the River Thames in 2001 of the torso of a Black boy, named Adam by police officers. The unknown child ...

“People ought to be one of two things, young or old. No; what’s the good of fooling? People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.” Dorothy Parker has the fortune to be remembered as young – as ...

“I beg you to send me immediately the remaining Vols:”, Henry Fielding wrote to Samuel Richardson in October 1748. Fielding was requesting the final volumes of Clarissa; or, The History of a Young ...

Recipes can take many forms, from detailed sets of instructions to simple lists. Stuck to my refrigerator is a carefully laminated card containing my sister-in-law’s guide (in French) to making ...

In the recent past the most famous slave rebellion in US history, and its enslaved leader, Nat Turner, have been the subject of numerous works. In August 1831, Turner and his nearly sixty followers ...

It is a courageous soul who would take on the challenge of writing a Life (even a partial Life) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The man lived a long time for his era, from 1646 to 1716. That is seventy ...