August 30, 2025

VS Naipaul’s glorious failure His ‘Enigma of Arrival’ humanises him

Marco Roth

26.08

David Foster Wallace: prophet of American loneliness He understood the rural Midwest

David Masciotra

25.08

The Right understands the power of aesthetics Bret Easton Ellis predicted our age of superficiality

Rosie Gray

22.08

The paradox of Jewish history ‘The Third Solitude’ interrogates memory

Morten Høi Jensen

13.08

Language is the last class marker Snobbery didn’t die with the Mitfords

Frances Wilson

12.08

Vladimir Nabokov: teasing trickster He reinvented himself in his seventies

Jonathan Meades

07.08

Novels were always for girls Lit bros have moved on

Mary Harrington

06.08

The closing of the Zoomer mind Lazy, politicised teen books shut down reading

Valerie Stivers

15.07

Why Gen Z goes mad for Dostoyevsky Young people crave an anti-capitalist prophet

Christopher Akers

10.07

How true is the Salt Path? The industry loves fictional non-fiction

Darran Anderson

06.06

The God complex of Muriel Spark Her psychopathic detachment is liberating

Kathleen Stock

28.05

Lessons from The History Man Bureaucrats are still betraying our universities

Joseph Williams