‘We are all goalkeepers now,’ declares Robert McCrum, and who could seriously argue with that? Every day we try to defend our ...

The writer and editor recommends books on the sporting life. His new book, "The Penalty Kick: The Story of a Gamechanger", is about his great-grandfather, who invented the penalty kick. Homer Is it ...

Soon after the UK broadcast of the first episode of Shakespeare and the American Dream, I received this letter from one of our listeners: "As a child I went to school for a while in New York. My ...

Leading authors, illustrators and agents have spoken out against the Guardian Media Group’s proposed sale of the world’s ...

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Robert McCrum, who survived a severe stroke in 1995, goes on a journey into his own brain to understand more about what happened to him.

Here’s the full text of her Radio 4 interview with writer and editor Robert McCrum, part of our America Rewritten series. ROBERT McCRUM: Lionel Shriver is an American writer with her finger on ...

Here’s the full text of his Radio 4 interview with writer and editor Robert McCrum, part of our America Rewritten series. ROBERT McCRUM: Richard Ford is a novelist whose characters live in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The writer and editor recommends books on the sporting life. His new book, "The Penalty Kick ...