Aug 25 2021 - 1:05am

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

19.04

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

Frances Wilson

06.04

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

Boyd Tonkin