The career of David Fincher – not so black and white?
David Fincher’s eleventh film is his most personal and revealing yet
A warning to the curious
Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer
Is the malaise at Eton symptomatic of something wider?
Is the whole institution of the public school starting to become unfit for purpose in the 21st century?
Has publishing gone woke?
It is the duty of a responsible publisher to reflect the intellectual and social diversity that exists across the world
The evolution of Nick Cave
The former hard-living frontman continues to expand his horizons
How true is The Crown?
The suspicion that it has a partial basis in fact makes the saga splendidly and addictively watchable
The art of the obituarist
In the wake of the Guardian’s controversial obituary of Peter Sutcliffe, Alex Larman considers the nuances of writing obits
The great Rugby School library sale
As Rugby School prepares to auction off some of its most prized literary possessions, one must wonder what Dr Arnold would have to say
Brideshead Revisited, Revisited
Compared to his peers, Evelyn Waugh has not had the range or quality of adaptations that he deserves
The legacy of The Woman in Black
Susan Hill’s story remains one of the most pervasively unsettling tales in the English ghost story tradition