18 May 2021 - 1:05am

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

29.03

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

Tim Lott

26.03

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

Will Lloyd

22.03

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

Tanya Gold

04.03

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

Mary Harrington

12.02

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

Sam Leith

19.01

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

Andrew Doyle

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