Hannah Davies writes:

Loving accessible literary fiction as I do, the latest offering from Frances Itani, the Canadian author of Deafening, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, was an...

Victoria Arnstein writes:

The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted (Portobello, February) recounts the experiences of Matthew Green, a Reuters correspondent on a six-month sabbatical. Rather than backpacking around the world, learning Spanish or whatever else people do, Green heads to northern Uganda to pursue the...

Graeme Neill writes:

Who was the first fictional character to sport a lightning bolt scar on his forehead? If you answered Harry Potter you’d be dead wrong. The answer is in fact Madman, a deliriously fun comic book character whose early exploits have just been republished by Image Comics.
Madman first emerged into the US...

Neill Denny writes:

Why can it sometimes make sense for employers to be racist? Why can it be logical for prostitutes to shun condoms? Why are their more women than men in New York? These are some of the eye-catching problems explained by Tim Harford, who will be known to many of us as the author of The Undercover Economist...