7 Nov 2025 - 12:01am

Knausgaard can’t escape his own story Myths are more powerful than monologues

Sam Jennings

05.11

Zadie Smith has nothing to say She is a master of self-regarding equivocation

John Maier

16.10

Save Narnia from the woke witch CS Lewis knew that children need to be frightened

Darran Anderson

06.10

The Left’s ugly free-speech fetish Consequence culture is making martyrs

Sarah Ditum

06.10

The humiliation of PG Wodehouse His genius can’t be reduced to IP

Sam Leith

30.08

VS Naipaul’s glorious failure His ‘Enigma of Arrival’ humanises him

Marco Roth

26.08

David Foster Wallace: prophet of American loneliness He understood the rural Midwest

David Masciotra

25.08

The Right understands the power of aesthetics Bret Easton Ellis predicted our age of superficiality

Rosie Gray

22.08

The paradox of Jewish history ‘The Third Solitude’ interrogates memory

Morten Høi Jensen

13.08

Language is the last class marker Snobbery didn’t die with the Mitfords

Frances Wilson

12.08

Vladimir Nabokov: teasing trickster He reinvented himself in his seventies

Jonathan Meades

07.08

Novels were always for girls Lit bros have moved on

Mary Harrington