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In 1935 Varian Fry arrived in Berlin as a newly minted Harvard graduate, eager to report on the escalating political unrest that had gripped Germany since Hitler’s rise to power. He was unprepared for ...

A mission to revive publishing in the once-dominant language ...

Depending on where your interests lie, Robert Aickman (1914–81) is notable either as co-founder and champion of the Inland Waterways Association, a group which at their inaugural meeting in 1946 made ...

A “koe” is a cry or a shriek. It can be, for example, the cry of a kiwi from the bush. Māori names for birds are often homonyms for the sounds they make. So “kiwi” is not unlike that bird’s “koe”. In ...

It has been more than twenty years since Rachel Cusk upset the applecart of parenting literature with her stark, uncompromising memoir A Life’s Work (2001), which Anne Enright soon followed with the ...

Mary Wollstonecraft – an unmarried, middle-class Englishwoman without a formal education – secured her place in the canon of political and economic theory by writing the first book-length response to ...

In 1977 Ted Hughes published the first selection of Sylvia Plath’s prose in Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams. Two years later he added a new cache of her work to an expanded second edition. Twenty ...