6 May 2024 - 1:02am

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

27.02

Britain doesn’t need a sick king The monarch's divine identity is starting to unravel

Terry Eagleton

13.02

Why I imagined my husband’s death What if fiction can alter the real world?

Francesca Kay

02.02

The excoriating comedy of Auschwitz Does the post-Holocaust generation still get the joke?

Boyd Tonkin

26.01

ChatGPT will kill off the Romantic genius Art has always relished the chaos of technology

Sam Leith