Lip service: why vagina is the perfect word
The word “vagina” is medical enough to sound grown up and blunt enough not be cutesy. It is still jarring…
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“I want a fur coat and a villa and a cat”: The art and agony of the English marriage
Using details from the huge Mass Observations archive at Sussex University, a new book "The English in Love" charts the…
ByRenata Adler, Ben Marcus and David Shields: Pushing the limits of the American novel
The "poster boy for the end of the novel" David Shields retains a list of 55 works he swears by…
ByBand of Angels by Kate Cooper: The witty, flawed, brilliant and forgotten women integral to early Christianity
Lucy Winkett, rector of St James's Piccadilly, praises the valuable work done by historian Kate Cooper remembering early Christian women…
ByTelling Tales by Amit Chaudhuri: The principle mode of our epoch isn’t business, but business
Deborah Levy is charmed by Amit Chaudhuri's introspective and entertaining columns and essays, which range from busyness, to James Joyce…
ByVictoria’s Madmen by Clive Bloom: A 19th century wilder and richer, closer and more distant than we usually encounter
Victoria's Madmen: Revolution and Alienation collects a crowd of unorthodox men and women to help dismantle the myth of Victorian…
ByElif Shafak: Strength is our ability to accept and deal with our weaknesses
Turkish novelist Elif Shafak on motherhood, writing and our depleted understanding of postpartum depression.
BySecret Reports on Nazi Germany by Neumann, Marcuse and Kircheimer: Possible patterns of German collapse
What do you get when you put three neo-Marxists from the Frankfurt School in the US's Office of Strategic Services,…
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