Claudia Castro Luna has spent her life thinking about the intersection of people and place and how each exerts influence on the other. Early in her career as an urban planner, she aimed to make people ...

Garth Risk Hallberg's 900-page debut novel is an intricately-plotted story set in chaotic 1970s New York. Critic Maureen Corrigan says City On Fire has much to admire, even if its ending falls flat.

Philip Larkin wrote the foreword to a 1982 anthology of new poets from Hull. His praise for his home city is largely muted: he calls it "as good a place to write in as any", a backdrop that gives ...