Tag: Literature

Total Results: 206


Karl Ove Knausgaard, the massively successful Norwegian novelist.  Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images
11/07/2025 - 12:01am

Knausgaard can’t escape his own story Myths are more powerful than monologs

Sam Jennings

Wednesday, November 5

05.11

Zadie Smith has nothing to say She is a master of self-regarding equivocation

John Maier

Thursday, October 16

16.10

Save Narnia from the woke witch C.S. Lewis knew that children need to be frightened

Darran Anderson

Monday, October 6

06.10

The Left's ugly free-speech fetish Consequence culture is making martyrs

Sarah Ditum

06.10

The humiliation of PG Wodehouse His genius can’t be reduced to IP

Sam Leith

Saturday, August 30

30.08

VS Naipaul’s glorious failure His ‘Enigma of Arrival’ humanizes him

Marco Roth

Tuesday, August 26

26.08

David Foster Wallace: prophet of American loneliness He understood the rural Midwest

David Masciotra

Monday, August 25

25.08

The Right understands the power of aesthetics Bret Easton Ellis predicted our age of superficiality

Rosie Gray

Friday, August 22

22.08

The paradox of Jewish history ‘The Third Solitude’ interrogates memory

Morten Høi Jensen

Wednesday, August 13

13.08

Language is the last class marker Snobbery didn’t die with the Mitfords

Frances Wilson

Tuesday, August 12

12.08

Vladimir Nabokov: teasing trickster He reinvented himself in his seventies

Jonathan Meades

Thursday, August 7

07.08

Novels were always for girls Lit bros have moved on

Mary Harrington