12 Aug 2025 - 1:01am

Vladimir Nabokov: teasing trickster He reinvented himself in his seventies

Jonathan Meades

08.08

Sunset Boulevard exposed Hollywood’s vanity We’re all divas now

Frederick Kaufman

08.08

Joan Didion’s husband was the original ‘wife guy’ John Dunne accepted her stardom — at a cost

Lily Isaacs

07.08

Novels were always for girls Lit bros have moved on

Mary Harrington

06.08

The Pogues soundtracked Irish London Shane MacGowan knew the city’s underworld

Darran Anderson

02.08

Benidorm is England’s id Nobody sneers at tourists here

Cosmo Adair

01.08

Gwyneth Paltrow never grew up Even her cruelty is childish

Kat Rosenfield

30.07

Trump’s climate policy is class warfare MAGA wants to own the libs

Matt Huber

29.07

The triumph of the lowbrow Ozzy and Hulk have become mainstream icons

Ryan Zickgraf

29.07

On Bonnie Blue and Roger Scruton We have stripped sex of enchantment

Kathleen Stock

28.07

Why the South is winning Borrowing the North’s old playbook

Joel Kotkin

24.07

Ozzy Osbourne made Birmingham his power He reassured the city’s alienated weirdos

Tracy King