Digging into fertile literary ground
Book review: Rob Cowen’s haunting ’Common Ground’ is another instalment in the Brits’ tradition of wonderful nature writing
book reviews
The lonely life of a unique genius
Book review: What it’s like to be inside the buzzing, brilliant mind of British mathematician John Horton Conway
A complex novel grows in Brooklyn
Book review: Set in 2003 Brooklyn, Tanwi Nandini Islam’s ’Bright Lines’ depicts a plucky place before the hipster overrun
A history of Greenwich Village’s full cast of characters
Book review: Folk City: New York and the American Folk Musical Revival
Behind Berlusconi and all that bunga bunga
Book review: The Italy correspondent for the Independent writes a defining take on the slick and corruptible politician
A history of the art world’s most notorious conmen
Book review: The chief investigator at a Boston museum dishes on the liars and cheats of the art world
The secrets of Genghis Khan’s success
Book review: Frank McLynn’s bio of the legendary, brutal conquerer reveals the Mongol’s mantras
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ sledgehammer words on being black in America
Book review: Rising intellectual force Ta-Nehisi Coates writes a letter to his son in a searing polemic about the realities of black life in America
Marketplaces are everywhere—even in online dating
Book review: A look at what makes good market design from game-theory pioneer Alvin E. Roth
What a white Milwaukee rapper can teach us about art
Why does the seemingly cringeworthy Juiceboxxx keep rapping, and what does it say about art in 2015? A review of the book ’The Next Next Level’