07/02/2024 - 1:01am

The truth about minotaur smut Monster love is deeply reactionary

Poppy Sowerby

25.06

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

Andrew Doyle

03.06

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

Nina Welsch

30.05

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

Mary Gaitskill

06.05

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

Mark Blacklock

03.05

How to survive the Tory apocalypse Pessimists should pick up a copy of Parade's End

Rob Lownie

30.04

PEN America has surrendered over Israel Writers have become the tools of zealots

Lionel Shriver

17.04

The problem with Byron’s debauchery The poet mistook privilege for freedom

Terry Eagleton

15.04

The metaverse of Fernando Pessoa His visionary consciousness took him to new worlds

Rob Doyle

09.04

The man who made modern Ireland Roger Casement's ghost still haunts the nation

Alexander Poots

03.04

This book will send you to Hell The Kindly Ones is uniquely harrowing

Rob Doyle

14.03

Why chicks still dig Byronic heroes The poet's heirs have none of his wit

Sam Leith