Philip Hensher

Philip Hensher is the author of eleven novels and a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University

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Just Stop Oil will damage access to art An attack on a rare Velzáquez painting will only hurt ordinary visitors

07 Nov 2023

The ‘queering’ of the Mary Rose insults gay history The curation of objects from Henry VIII's flagship borders on narcissism

09 Aug 2023

Novelists are afraid of class

05 Apr 2022

What books have we been denied?

21 Dec 2021

Alice Sebold’s empty apology

02 Dec 2021

The importance of Freddie Mercury

24 Nov 2021

John Le Carré understood you

19 Oct 2021

Why were we shocked by Afghanistan?

25 Aug 2021