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, April 6

06.04

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

Boyd Tonkin

Monday, March 29

29.03

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

Tim Lott

Friday, March 26

26.03

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

Will Lloyd

Monday, March 22

22.03

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

Tanya Gold

Thursday, March 4

04.03

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

Mary Harrington

Friday, February 12

12.02

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

Sam Leith

Tuesday, January 19

19.01

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

Andrew Doyle

Monday, November 2

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, July 31

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, July 20

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, December 5

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