Journalist Phil Brown worked for 40 years as a journalist and jobbing writer, working on his poetry after hours.

I was also gripped by Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Cape, £22) – a philosophical novel masquerading as a bizarre dystopia of ...

Through her paintings, Georgia O’Keefe laid claim to New Mexico’s desert landscape. But it was never hers for the taking ...

As Kimber points out, however, Mansfield was a champion dissembler. And her life was the stuff of stories. Born into a prosperous New Zealand family, she was a self-styled bohemian who sought ...

This year’s biennial features almost 100 artists and “figures of interest” in a city-wide exploration of the tales we all tell and how they form us and our cultures.

As Gerri Kimber writes in her fascinating new biography, Mansfield possessed ‘a supreme gift for storytelling that has never been equalled’. Her short stories, Kimber notes (she never wrote a novel), ...

LAWRENCE — Resident and businessperson Sarah Perez Marquez said she and many others left the Dominican Republic and came to Lawrence due to the island country’s corrupt politicians and fixed elections ...

M en A twhiles A re S ober, by Stephen Raushenbush ( A. & C. Boni ). A first novel: the tale of a bemused young man living in our New York. P ilgrims of T he I mpossible, by Conings-by Dawson ( ...