Tag: Literature

Total Results: 211


‘Sally Rooney can see it all coming, can sense the snark on the air.’ David Levenson/Getty Images
20 Sep 2024 - 1:02am

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

Poppy Sowerby

Wednesday, 18 September

18.09

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

Matt Feeney

Friday, 6 September

06.09

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

Kathleen Stock

Tuesday, 3 September

03.09

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

Andrew Doyle

Tuesday, 13 August

13.08

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

Sam Jennings

Thursday, 1 August

01.08

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

John Maier

Friday, 12 July

12.07

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

Sam Leith

Tuesday, 2 July

02.07

The truth about minotaur smut Monster love is deeply reactionary

Poppy Sowerby

Tuesday, 25 June

25.06

The forgotten novel that inspired Michael Jackson Why did the King of Pop sing about a rat?

Andrew Doyle

Monday, 3 June

03.06

Why I quit as a school librarian Progressive activism is now considered the norm

Nina Welsch

Thursday, 30 May

30.05

Don’t be terrified of Pale Fire Nabokov's masterpiece has a complex but huge heart

Mary Gaitskill

Monday, 6 May

06.05

The Met Gala is a Ballardian nightmare The fashion aristocracy have made their own dystopia

Mark Blacklock