August 2, 2023

Did David Foster Wallace predict the future? Our world is more dystopian than Infinite Jest

Sarah Ditum

26.06

Welcome to Fahrenheit 2023 Censors cut out writers’ tongues and obliterate worlds

Jacob Howland

09.06

Cormac McCarthy’s irrational apocalypse In his world, mankind is nothing without bloodshed

Park MacDougald

01.02

The books that made me Every library is autobiographical

Penelope Lively

19.12

Beauty has become our enemy We are being punished for desiring the forbidden

David Samuels

17.08

America will always fear Caesar Gore Vidal: ‘Burr’

Ross Douthat

12.08

The last American aristocrat George Kennan made hierarchy seem seductive

Phil Klay

18.04

The books that made me Only reading can prepare us for life's tragedies

Michel Houellebecq

29.03

Inside China’s fiction factories Bribery and plagiarism are the key to success

Megan Walsh

21.02

The empathy of Joseph Stalin Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator

Boyd Tonkin

26.01

The importance of Bronze Age Pervert The radical Right flourishes in an atomised world

Murtaza Hussain

10.12

This is Tolkien’s world The Lord of the Rings is more than nostalgic medievalism

Dominic Sandbrook