Tag: Literature

Total Results: 204


"One must retire out of the herd and then fire bombs into it" said Lawrence. Credit: Keystone/Getty
04/19/2021 - 1:05am

You can’t silence D.H. Lawrence Spurned by feminists and silenced for decades, his work is more relevant than ever

Frances Wilson

Tuesday
06.04

06.04

Philip Roth’s carnival of desire The flawed writer is an antidote to today's less ambitious literary scene

Boyd Tonkin

Monday
29.03

29.03

Jordan Peterson’s fairytale world The psychology professor understands that our cherished beliefs are just stories

Tim Lott

Friday
26.03

26.03

The many deaths of Virginia Woolf The Bloomsbury genius discovered too late that she was wrong about everything

Will Lloyd

Monday
22.03

22.03

Women have always been better writers They're taking over male spaces without sacrificing their femininity

Tanya Gold

Thursday
04.03

04.03

The woke battle for cultural imperialism The use of language to impose a worldview can easily become violent

Mary Harrington

Friday
12.02

12.02

Trump’s legacy: dinosaur porn Were the ferocious culture wars of the last administration a proxy for forbidden passions?

Sam Leith

Tuesday
19.01

19.01

The importance of obscenity A century after Ulysses was banned, a strange paradox remains at the heart of vulgarity

Andrew Doyle

Monday
02.11

02.11

How Martin Amis brought Christopher Hitchens back to life In his new book, the novelist doesn't quite capture the full brilliance of his late friend

Douglas Murray

Friday
31.07

31.07

Harry Potter fans need to grow up The Boy Who Lived is 40 today, but the books' binary worldview of goodies and baddies hasn't aged well

Sam Leith

Monday
20.07

20.07

Would you rather be someone else? Modern literature dwells on the constant regret that is a downside of unlimited choice

Dan Hitchens

Thursday
05.12

05.12

Spare us the bedtime morality tales Reading to your children is an opportunity to fire up imaginations, not an ideological battleground

Giles Fraser