The celebrification of children’s literature
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Gordon’s (Still) Alive: Flash Gordon at 40
Remembering the cult-classic science-fiction romp
The demise of the second-hand bookshop
Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller
Food for Thought
The saga of the Rex Whistler restaurant and Tate Britain
Drop the agitprop
David Hare is an extraordinarily accomplished writer when he doesn’t revert to contemporary politics
Bridge Over Troubled Water: 50 Years On
Half a century on, the song remains an an eternally affecting evocation of the need for solidarity and comfort
Brought to Book: James Marriott
Larman on the Editor hounded off Twitter for saying male novelists are being excluded
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How to cheat the bestseller list
Buying your way into the book charts is more widespread than you might think
Something Changed: Can Jarvis Cocker recapture former glories in 2020?
Alexander Larman asks whether Jarvis Cocker’s latest album release will reignite his former success
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Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
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Grey expectations
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Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
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Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.