Tag: Literature

Total Results: 204


'Humour is the tried and tested Jewish mechanism of metabolising pain'. (Carl Court/Getty)
9 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

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

Alexander Cohen

Saturday
28.02

28.02

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

Terry Eagleton

Tuesday
03.02

03.02

Behind the horror renaissance The genre opens up uncomfortable truths

Noah Kumin

Saturday
10.01

10.01

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

John Masko

Wednesday
31.12

31.12

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

Sam Jennings

Friday
26.12

26.12

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

Alexander Poots

Tuesday
16.12

16.12

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

Tanya Gold

Thursday
04.12

04.12

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

Terry Eagleton

Friday
14.11

14.11

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

Kathleen Stock

Saturday
08.11

08.11

Uncancelled at last Four years on, are we any wiser?

Kate Clanchy

Friday
07.11

07.11

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

Sam Jennings

Wednesday
05.11

05.11

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

John Maier