June 21, 2022

Why we need fairies Our perception of the world has lost all wonder

Salley Vickers

17.06

The deracination of literature We have fallen out of love with good writing

Mary Gaitskill

31.05

Stella Creasy’s bourgeois feminism Criminalising catcalling won't stop men hitting their wives

Kathleen Stock

18.05

Why normal people love Sally Rooney They see their sad lives reflected in her stories

John Maier

14.05

The mystery of Wagatha Christie Hidden melodrama lurks behind this petty spectacle

Dominic Sandbrook

18.04

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

Michel Houellebecq

18.04

Kingsley Amis vs God His Catholic dystopia revealed the limits of social control

Boyd Tonkin

13.04

How did Elena Ferrante get away with it? Her anonymity should have been more controversial

Ann Manov

05.04

Novelists are afraid of class It is now taboo to write about social differences

Philip Hensher

31.03

Why Russians hated the Nineties The transition to capitalism was chaotic and painful

Richard Godwin

30.03

Boris Johnson is no clown Playing the fool requires art and intelligence

Terry Eagleton

29.03

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

Megan Walsh