I came back from the UK to the USA, from the icy cold to the icy cold. The snow and ice have been so bad here that almost everyone is working from home, events have been widely cancelled (including ...

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 ...

What do you do with a deposed king? Do you keep him imprisoned until such time as he reaches his natural end, or do you arrange for him to be bumped off? If you go for the former there is a danger ...

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 ...

I dont know if any readers have kept any of their old school or student essays. I certainly have some of my student ones, which I come across from time to time. I can't actually remember where they ...