03/04/2021 - 12:02am

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

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

20.07

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

Dan Hitchens

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

15.10

The Booker Prize judges had one job It was an epic fail — which sets a rotten precedent — to award this year's prize to two winners, says a former judge

Sam Leith

11.07

Don’t call it poverty porn A wave of working-class writers are demanding to be listened to

Jenny McCartney

04.07

Murdoch’s moral vision

Giles Fraser

06.06

What’s the point of political fiction? Novels rarely make laws – but they enlarge our political vocabulary

Sam Leith

02.05

Call yourself well-read?

Sam Leith