Labouring unloved
In the West we’ve yet to make the acknowledgment that overwork can be deadly, says Katrina Gulliver
A double American Awakening
Katrina Gulliver delves into two new publications entitled ‘American Awakening’, and discovers that one is an exhortation, the other an ironic description of the current process of politics and society
The Caribbean after slavery
Professor Jeremy Black on the Caribbean in the 19th century
How do you solve a problem like memoir?
A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre
Bad Law Project?
The good, the bad, and the ugly of crowdfunding legal cases
Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
Count your #blessings
A guide to drawing up a healthy resentment list
The Realist bogeyman
Everyone likes to shoot the messenger and nobody likes to hear “I told you so”
I spread disinformation, and I’m very sorry
In which our brave author is found guilty of trying to be funny online
The rise and fall of slavery in the Caribbean
Professor Jeremy Black on the reality of the slave economy created by the Caribbean’s European colonisers
Bull market
José Tomás is a titan of the bullring, but does he live up to his reputation?
Irish reunification is a Remainer pipe dream
The Republic would be in no way equipped to absorb loyalist communities against their will