05/20/2026 - 9:31am

Invasion of the literary bots Did AI game the Commonwealth Prize?

Vincenzo Barney

16.12

Inside the Jane Austen theme park The writer has become a brand

Tanya Gold

05.11

Zadie Smith has nothing to say She is a master of self-regarding equivocation

John Maier

03.10

The corruption of Smiley’s people The vandals are at le Carré’s gates

Kathleen Stock

10.07

Why publishing loves tall tales It incentivizes fictional nonfiction

Darran Anderson

18.04

Mario Vargas Llosa’s illiberal conversion He swapped Leftism for Pinochet

Pratinav Anil

27.02

The paradox of Millennial perfection Their lives are so good they're bad

Agnes Callard

27.01

Zadie Smith’s multicultural fantasy 'White Teeth' chronicles a failed project

Ralph Leonard