November 2, 2020

How Martin Amis brought Christopher Hitchens back to life In his new book, the novelist doesn't quite capture the full brilliance of his late friend

Douglas Murray

31.07

Harry Potter fans need to grow up The Boy Who Lived is 40 today, but the books' binary worldview of goodies and baddies hasn't aged well

Sam Leith

20.07

Would you rather be someone else? Modern literature dwells on the constant regret that is a downside of unlimited choice

Dan Hitchens

05.12

Spare us the bedtime morality tales Reading to your children is an opportunity to fire up imaginations, not an ideological battleground

Giles Fraser

15.10

The Booker Prize judges had one job It was an epic fail — which sets a rotten precedent — to award this year's prize to two winners, says a former judge

Sam Leith

11.07

Don’t call it poverty porn A wave of working-class writers are demanding to be listened to

Jenny McCartney

04.07

Murdoch’s moral vision

Giles Fraser

06.06

What’s the point of political fiction? Novels rarely make laws – but they enlarge our political vocabulary

Sam Leith

02.05

Call yourself well-read?

Sam Leith

26.04

Why are Millennials so boring?

Douglas Murray

23.04

How Jane Austen makes fools of her fans

Tanya Gold

05.04

How punditry polluted the novel

Douglas Murray