Tag: Literature

Total Results: 212


'By the end of its first quarter, the 20th century had already seen what many now consider its most groundbreaking artworks'. (Pierre Vauthey/Sygma/Getty)
12/31/2025 - 12:02am

The triumph of anti-art Our century is defined by anesthesia

Sam Jennings

Friday, December 26

26.12

Meet the bard of the Boxing Day hunt R.S. Surtrees used sport to dissect humanity’s foibles

Alexander Poots

Tuesday, December 16

16.12

Inside the Jane Austen theme park The writer has become a brand

Tanya Gold

Thursday, December 4

04.12

The transgressions of Tom Stoppard His ‘outsider’ status was a gift

Terry Eagleton

Friday, November 14

14.11

What Margaret Atwood got wrong ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ never happened

Kathleen Stock

Saturday, November 8

08.11

Uncanceled at last Four years on, are we any wiser?

Kate Clanchy

Friday, November 7

07.11

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