September 3, 2024

The worst novelist in the world

Andrew Doyle

13.08

Is Trump a perverted Emersonian? The great writer is as contradictory as America

Sam Jennings

01.08

Joan Didion’s insufferable disciples Publishing is populated by wet English graduates

John Maier

12.07

The grotesque truth about children They are drawn to the dark, the sadistic and the cruel

Sam Leith

02.07

The truth about minotaur smut Monster love is deeply reactionary

Poppy Sowerby

25.06

The forgotten novel that inspired Michael Jackson Why did the King of Pop sing about a rat?

Andrew Doyle

03.06

Why I quit as a school librarian Progressive activism is now considered the norm

Nina Welsch

30.05

Don’t be terrified of Pale Fire Nabokov's masterpiece has a complex but huge heart

Mary Gaitskill

06.05

The Met Gala is a Ballardian nightmare The fashion aristocracy have made their own dystopia

Mark Blacklock

03.05

How to survive the Tory apocalypse Pessimists should pick up a copy of Parade's End

Rob Lownie

30.04

PEN America has surrendered over Israel Writers have become the tools of zealots

Lionel Shriver

17.04

The problem with Byron’s debauchery The poet mistook privilege for freedom

Terry Eagleton