SO TONY BLAIR is mortal. In the past few months Britain's prime minister has suffered a series of reverses. His party was defeated in the local elections and humiliated in the London mayoral ...

That faith doesn’t seem to have wavered in the 10 years since that book was published. “Intimations,” her slender new collection (less than 100 pages) of ultra-timely essays (several written ...

In “Intimations,” her new collection of essays, Ms. Smith gives form to our experience of 2020. Written during the early months of the pandemic, these six short pieces parse its first traces ...

For one reason or another health, in all its ruddy aspects, continues to dog the footsteps of the generally well fed, well clothed and sanitarily regulated American public. Such, at least, are the ...

The writing of Smith’s brilliant essay collection “Intimations” was bookended by two tragedies: the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd. The book was certainly ...

Malcolm Muggeridge asks Lawrence Durrell about his life and the impact his experiences have had on his writing. Durrell speaks about the shock of moving from the diverse wildness of India to the ...