During protests in the US in the middle of 2020, a Predator drone circled in the sky above Minneapolis. Some 20,000ft below, ...

Imagine this unlikely scenario: the President of the United States of America is a charlatan; he talks a lot, or rather ...

The hegemony of the United States in the Americas – part of the “greatness” Donald Trump is so anxious to shore up or retrieve – has been a brief and surprising phenomenon. For observers who consider ...

Nicola Shulman salutes the memoirs of an old-school editor and socialite; Rebecca Fraser discusses an unexpectedly peaceful transition of power in seventeenth-century America Toby Lichtig travels to ...

The forty-two essays that Tom McAllister wrote for this book began as an attempt to unshackle himself from social media and its brain-rotting effects. He set strict parameters: one essay for every ...

Amanda Knox’s first memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, was published in 2013, just as her retrial for the murder of twenty-one-year-old Meredith Kercher was taking place in Italy. Her second memoir, Free: ...

“I was staring down the barrel of middle age, and my pockets were empty”, writes Megan Dunn in her illuminating memoir, The Mermaid Chronicles. “I’d spent my life … pursuing art – video art, then ...

What a peculiar book this is. Peter York, best known for his cod-anthropological examin­ation of British society’s various snobby tribes, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), has turned his ...

Most of us would rather not think about death – our own or that of others. It is one of the most invisible, suppressed, negated and denied facts of life. Yet it will eventually and inevitably catch up ...