Alexander Larman talks to the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics, Henry Eliot about what makes a ‘modern classic’

Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career

We should treat Roald Dahl as a naïve and unworldly man who never entirely left the realm of make-believe

David Fincher’s eleventh film is his most personal and revealing yet

Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer

Is the whole institution of the public school starting to become unfit for purpose in the 21st century?

It is the duty of a responsible publisher to reflect the intellectual and social diversity that exists across the world

The former hard-living frontman continues to expand his horizons

The suspicion that it has a partial basis in fact makes the saga splendidly and addictively watchable

In the wake of the Guardian’s controversial obituary of Peter Sutcliffe, Alex Larman considers the nuances of writing obits