14 May 2022 - 1:10am

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

22.03

The fictional world of trans activism There's nothing harmless about denying the truth

Kathleen Stock

21.03

American education’s new dark age Colleges have abandoned real learning for wokeism

William Deresiewicz

18.03

The origins of Eric Zemmour French nationalism has a long and bloody history

Boyd Tonkin

11.03

The failure of Jack Kerouac The king of the counterculture ended up a reactionary

Park MacDougald