The American writer’s first book in 12 years showcases her singular, scintillating proseThe wry, singular stories of the US short-story writer Deborah Eisenberg aren’t easy to pin down. Temporally fluid, chatty without being workaday, they don’t rely on plot yet aren’t person-has-thoughts narratives either and are often built from a...

When the BBC’s China editor Carrie Gracie found out she was earning much less than her male colleagues, she decided to do the unthinkable: take on her employer‘Being mad and bad,’ Carrie Gracie writes towards the end of Equal, her account of a year-long struggle to get the BBC to...