03/09/2026 - 12:00am

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 anesthesia

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

08.11

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

Kate Clanchy

07.11

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

Sam Jennings

05.11

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

John Maier