26 Dec 2025 - 12:02am

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

Alexander Poots

16.12

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

Tanya Gold

04.12

The transgressions of Tom Stoppard His 'outsider' status was a gift

Terry Eagleton

14.11

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

Kathleen Stock

08.11

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

Kate Clanchy

07.11

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

Sam Jennings

05.11

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

John Maier

16.10

Save Narnia from the woke witch CS Lewis knew that children need to be frightened

Darran Anderson

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

30.08

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

Marco Roth

26.08

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

David Masciotra