19 Dec 2022 - 12:01am

Beauty has become our enemy We are being punished for desiring the forbidden

David Samuels

23.09

Serial’s true crime Injustice is too entertaining to eliminate

Kat Rosenfield

17.08

America will always fear Caesar Gore Vidal: ‘Burr’

Ross Douthat

11.07

Why fiction is failing Britain Novelists are ignoring every day reality

Francesca Peacock

20.12

The unbearable lightness of being cancelled Milan Kundera introduced us to the Devil's laughter

Howard Jacobson

10.12

This is Tolkien’s world The Lord of the Rings is more than nostalgic medievalism

Dominic Sandbrook

21.10

Hillary’s fantasy presidency Her new thriller reads like a consolation prize

Kat Rosenfield

04.09

We need to talk about 9/11 A short story about America's new enemies

Lionel Shriver

19.04

You can’t silence D.H. Lawrence Spurned by feminists and silenced for decades, his work is more relevant than ever

Frances Wilson

01.01

How campus politics went global On Beauty: At the start of the century, Zadie Smith identified a tendency that's grown to monstrous proportions

Sarah Ditum

25.09

I’m sick of fighting moronic culture wars The best weapon against people who take themselves too seriously is not to denounce but to make fun of them.

Lionel Shriver

06.06

What’s the point of political fiction? Novels rarely make laws – but they enlarge our political vocabulary

Sam Leith