Daydreamed a Daydream

She had everything she could possibly want. And then the police announced that she and her lover-boy nephew were cold-blooded killers...

There are two competing perspectives about the cause of the opioid explosion, and they lead to different policy prescriptions...

I first met Julia Pinto Hughes in Lima in the mid-eighties, when we were both doing the postgraduate programme in literary translation at the Institute...

by Leah Henrickson Introduction In 1984, a curious book was released: The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed. With its bright red cover and substantial size (22.6 x 20.3 x 1.5 centimetres), it stood out on any shelf. What was more striking, however, was the front cover’s claim that the book...

Women writers have often used a style of domestic realism – reflecting the family homes in which they have laboured and nurtured. But in the 1970s and 80s they also took up science fiction, fantasy or historical fiction to explore gender relations on an epic scale...

Sons and Lovers emerged with astonishing vividness, like an island from off which the mist has suddenly lifted...

Winning or losing the trading race can be a matter of nanoseconds...

The trajectory of literature is intertwined with and also strains against the career of God...

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations—such is a pleasure beyond compare...

One day I will be nothing but what I've left behind: a roomful of poetry books boxed for yard sale or library donation...

The postcolonial school may have claimed Coetzee, yet his attempt at a satirical sort of self canonisation actively resists any and all approaches to his writing within a single framework...

Awareness joins inner and outer, near and far. It can also be referred to as compassion...

It was an “infernal machine” comprised of a clock, a pistol trigger mechanism, moving cogs and bars of a soft, chemical-smelling material...

The neuroscientist vows not to ruin his new beginnings as he re-enters academic life...

Tintoretto needed no more than the outlines of the figures—no more than their idea—for them to come to life...