01/28/2023 - 12:10am

Maus and the repressive power of Jewish trauma Should American Jews let go of the Holocaust?

David Samuels

17.01

Victor Hugo’s forgotten masterpiece Toilers of the Sea is exhilaratingly tempestuous

Andrew Doyle

11.01

What’s wrong with violent fiction? Crime writers can't protect every reader's feelings

Kat Rosenfield

27.12

Harry Flashman’s imperial morality George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman'

Nikhil Krishnan

21.12

All the populist’s men Robert Penn Warren's 'All the President's Men'

Mary Gaitskill

08.12

Michel Houellebecq’s sexual apocalypse Has our nihilist prophet been tamed by love?

Jacob Siegel

30.11

The forgotten genius of Compton Mackenzie The long-lost writer emancipated the English novel

Andrew Doyle

23.11

Who cancelled English folklore? Britain is embarrassed by its heritage

Isabella Bengoechea

15.11

Bob Dylan has no philosophy His new book is the work of a talker, not a thinker

Geoff Dyer

11.11

John Milton’s free speech crusade His vision of liberty is more potent than ever

Andrew Doyle

10.11

Was Kurt Vonnegut a nice man? A good writer doesn't have to be a saint

Dorian Lynskey

08.11

Can you read in Scottish? Writing in dialect is a subversive act

Tom Newlands