15 Oct 2019 - 1:37pm

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

26.04

Why are Millennials so boring?

Douglas Murray

23.04

How Jane Austen makes fools of her fans

Tanya Gold

05.04

How punditry polluted the novel

Douglas Murray

04.03

Why our troubled times are perfect for poetry

Bidisha

01.03

Dylan Thomas: populist

Freya Sanders

06.02

Why are frauds so fascinating? Trying to be the centre of attention – as author Dan Mallory did – brings out the devil in anyone

Douglas Murray

14.09

How post-modernism killed America’s morality

Giles Fraser