If the wheel was invented over 5,000 years ago, why wasn’t it applied to luggage until the 1970s? asks Katrine Marçal in this thought-provoking book, seamlessly translated by Alex Fleming. A…
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As Covid-19 and its attendant fears spread during the spring of 2020, Britain was enveloped in a silence unprecedented since the Industrial Revolution, writes Steven Lovatt in this charming and thought-provoking…
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In this eloquent essay collection, Molly McCully Brown offers an account of life with a disability. Born prematurely with an identical twin who died soon after birth, Brown has cerebral palsy,…
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In Burning Man, Frances Wilson aims to rescue DH Lawrence from his post-feminist infamy. “Both censored and worshipped in his lifetime,” writes the acclaimed biographer, “Lawrence’s afterlife has been one of…
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The title of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut short-story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), refers to a character who translates ailments for a doctor. Lahiri continued to plumb the pain of first- and…
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“In the beginning was a scent,” writes Karl Schlögel — a “somewhat sweet, heavy aroma” that once filled the air on festive occasions in Moscow. Schlögel, a German academic specialising in…