15 Jun 2026 - 1:01am

Hartley, not Orwell, foresaw today’s tyranny Beauty has never been so political

Malise Ruthven

27.05

A Left case for the Great Books  Naomi Kanakia loves the classics, despite herself

Valerie Stivers

20.05

Invasion of the literary bots Did AI game the Commonwealth Prize?

Vincenzo Barney

09.03

The tragedy of Jewish identity As antisemitism changes, so do its chroniclers

Alexander Cohen

28.02

Lord of the Flies is wrong about humanity We aren’t naturally cruel

Terry Eagleton

03.02

Behind the horror renaissance The genre opens up uncomfortable truths

Noah Kumin

10.01

Why Moby-Dick nerds keep chasing the whale I spent 25 hours with the superfans

John Masko

31.12

The triumph of anti-art Our century is defined by anaesthesia

Sam Jennings

26.12

Meet the bard of the Boxing Day hunt R.S. Surtrees used sport to dissect humanity’s foibles

Alexander Poots

16.12

Inside the Jane Austen theme park The writer has become a brand

Tanya Gold

04.12

The transgressions of Tom Stoppard His 'outsider' status was a gift

Terry Eagleton

14.11

What Margaret Atwood got wrong ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ never happened

Kathleen Stock