07/20/2020 - 1:00am

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

04.03

Why our troubled times are perfect for poetry

Bidisha

01.03

Dylan Thomas: populist

Freya Sanders