Tag: Literature

Total Results: 211


Everything is turned into pornography of the self. (Chris Hyde/Getty Images for boohoo)
14 Oct 2021 - 1:03am

Would you sell a kidney to be famous? Success is now determined by our hunger for clout

Mary Harrington

Saturday, 9 October

09.10

How to survive our tragedy Covid has receded — but will pride and hubris doom humanity?

Terry Eagleton

Wednesday, 6 October

06.10

Hong Kong’s Zero Covid deception There is nothing 'normal' about the draconian measures still in place

Philip Cowley

Monday, 13 September

13.09

The problem with white saviours Ostentatious meekness doesn't make you a good person

Tomiwa Owolade

Saturday, 11 September

11.09

The war on Martin Amis His response to the attacks was a quixotic and disastrous battle against Islamism

Will Lloyd

Tuesday, 7 September

07.09

Sex, drugs and the Modern Review We wouldn't have survived amid today's echo chambers and cancel culture

Julie Burchill

Saturday, 4 September

04.09

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

Lionel Shriver

Friday, 3 September

03.09

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

Sarah Ditum

Tuesday, 31 August

31.08

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

Henry Oliver

Wednesday, 25 August

25.08

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

Philip Hensher

Tuesday, 17 August

17.08

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

Tanya Gold

Tuesday, 10 August

10.08

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

Julie Burchill