Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Engineering has not been one of literature’s great muses, but for Adrian Duncan — a Berlin-based Irish writer, ...

This tale of a Soviet mathematician working in rural 50s Ireland is bogged down by a lack of narrative impetus For anyone who’s ever bemoaned the parochialism of contemporary literary fiction – its ...

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Adrian Duncan’s new novel is his fourth book in four years (I’ll have whatever he’s having). His 2019 debut, Love Notes from a German Building Site, which won the inaugural John McGahern Book Prize, ...

The Geometer Lobachevsky Adrian Duncan Lilliput Press, €15 ‘It feels like twilight on a winter’s evening in Kazan,” muses the narrator of The Geometer Lobachevsky. Yet he’s not in Kazan; he’s ...

Visionary applied geometer Ron Resch, who passed away in 2012, is the subject of the incredible documentary embedded above, that, while by no means new (it was produced back in the grainy days of 1970 ...