7 Jan 2025 - 3:47pm

The vapid world of America’s top book influencer Zibby Owens offers a tonic for the ennui of upscale strivers

Matthew Gasda

15.11

The rebel cult of Murakami He rejected Japan's literary establishment

Christopher Harding

03.10

The moral weakness of Britain’s ruling class Alan Hollinghurst revels in elite misbehaviour

Pratinav Anil

26.09

Michel Houellebecq is literature’s Lucifer Like all satanic writers, he tells unwanted truths

Darran Anderson

24.09

Sally Rooney’s therapy trap She's the portraitist of our narcissistic age

Sam Jennings

20.09

Why feminists love to hate Sally Rooney Her readers are reduced to bitchy schoolgirls

Poppy Sowerby

18.09

How to read like a man Male readers now are driven by hubris

Matt Feeney

06.09

How vanilla is your sexual fantasy? Gillian Anderson's new book provides little more than light relief

Kathleen Stock

03.09

The worst novelist in the world What if Amanda M. Ros was trolling her critics?

Andrew Doyle

13.08

Is Trump a perverted Emersonian? The great writer is as contradictory as America

Sam Jennings

01.08

Joan Didion’s insufferable disciples Publishing is populated by wet English graduates

John Maier

12.07

The grotesque truth about children They are drawn to the dark, the sadistic and the cruel

Sam Leith