Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers is the author of James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist. His Parallel Lives: From Freud and Mann to Arbus and Plath will be published in July, both by Louisiana State University Press.
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
Israel off the leash
For Benjamin Netanyahu, continuing the war is a matter of political survival, and he goes to America to raise support, not to listen to calls for peace
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
Something rotten in the state of Germany
The Bundestag has weakened the criminal penalties for child pornography
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Telling tales out of school
Is it really about sex, race, generational hierarchies — or the changeable nature of student-teacher relationships?
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Still-sparkling gems of an annus mirabilis
Tried and tested novels overlooked in our neophilic rush to the new and wanting