Boris Dralyuk on a compelling portrait of the Black Sea port of Odesa, past and present; Russell Williams is put in mind of the rumpled TV detective Columbo by a pacy French novel Vanessa Curtis is ...

Over the past thirty years, English football has undergone a complete transformation. In 1992, twenty-two clubs broke away from the Football League to create a new entity, the Premier League. It has ...

Today Albert Einstein is, literally speaking, nowhere. Almost all of him (setting aside the unfortunate story of his purloined brain) was cremated and the ashes were distributed on the waters of the ...

Occupied Words is a study of how the Yiddish language was reforged in the crucible of the Holocaust. Hannah Pollin-Galay’s book is divided into three sections. The first concerns the various lexica of ...

Speaking of her late husband, Valerie Eliot once remarked “He felt he had paid too much to be a poet, that he had suffered too much”. Given how little of the poet’s time was spent actually producing ...

Book titles that begin “The Treasury of …” suggest a box that you open to find jewels inside. The Treasury of Folklore: Waterlands, wooded worlds and starry skies looks and feels like a heavy box, its ...

Patrick Clarke’s biography of the synth-pop duo Soft Cell is, he explains, “a book written from a distance”. Not yet born when the band rose to prominence in the early 1980s, Clarke only became a fan ...

This smartly presented story, the first in a dual language series that will feature international authors writing on aspects of El Prado’s collection, is the fruit of Coetzee’s three week residency at ...

“Standing in the full / glare of the war, I’m a surface / reflecting its awesome light”, Oksana Maksymchuk declares in Still City, her debut English-language collection. The key phrase comes next: ...

Stepping out of his apartment block in Paris’s chic sixteenth arrondissement, the filmmaker Robert Bristol narrowly avoids being hit by a falling man. What is more, this man is stark naked. The man ...

This is the second new book that David Graeber, the anthropologist and anarchist, has published since his death aged fifty-nine in late 2020, and that his thoughts continue to surprise, challenge and ...