09/03/2021 - 1:05am

Sally Rooney needs to be famous She has become a prisoner of her own perspective

Sarah Ditum

31.08

Why was Virginia Woolf so rude? She knew that all of us are actually horrible

Henry Oliver

25.08

Why were we shocked by Afghanistan? The West has always been deluded about imperialism

Philip Hensher

17.08

Quentin Tarantino’s mummy issues He clings on to trauma — and turns it into art

Tanya Gold

10.08

Teenagers need to have sex again A book about owls set the scene for my own awakening

Julie Burchill

05.08

How activists captured publishing Resistance to capitalism has become just another way of selling things

Sam Leith

23.07

The emptiness of open letters With enough signatories, any demand will be fulfilled

Daniel Skipper Rasmussen

21.06

How to save fiction Spineless publishing houses and 'sensitivity readers' don't care about art

Niamh Mulvey

03.06

What is Meghan afraid of? Her new book is an attempt to rewrite childhood

Giles Fraser

18.05

Your gym routine is worthless Our obsession with exercise shows a depressing lack of aspiration

Lionel Shriver

17.05

Children don’t need woke stories Meghan Markle's ghastly new book has nothing on Billy Bunter

Dominic Sandbrook

27.04

Books won’t save you You can't use literature as a shortcut to self-improvement

Sarah Ditum