04/29/2025 - 12:59am

A Russian novel saved my mind Revolutions start on the page

Noah Kumin

18.04

Mario Vargas Llosa’s illiberal conversion He swapped Leftism for Pinochet

Pratinav Anil

29.09

Stephen King’s boomer propaganda The former anti-authoritarian was captured by Covid

Kat Rosenfield

06.04

Did heteropessimism kill the rom-com? If men are trash, how can they be love interests?

Kat Rosenfield

11.07

Why fiction is failing Britain Novelists are ignoring every day reality

Francesca Peacock

05.04

Novelists are afraid of class It is now taboo to write about social differences

Philip Hensher

07.01

Michel Houellebecq is a hopeless romantic He's cynical about sex, yet prey to the potential of love

Jarryd Bartle

11.09

The war on Martin Amis His response to the attacks was a quixotic and disastrous battle against Islamism

Will Lloyd

21.06

How to save fiction Spineless publishing houses and 'sensitivity readers' don't care about art

Niamh Mulvey

08.09

The greatest stories never told Introducing ‘Alt Histories’ – a series in which we explore what we can learn from what didn't happen

Peter Franklin

06.06

What’s the point of political fiction? Novels rarely make laws – but they enlarge our political vocabulary

Sam Leith