Snaps, crackles and Pop Art
Things you didn’t know you were interested in — until someone wrote a good book about them
Pains and pleasures of anticipation
The best sort of debut isn’t actually the author’s first book
Bret Easton Ellis — the enfant terrible who finally grew up
How he at last lived up to his promise
Secret sex lives in Victorian England
Prepare to fall in like with three new books
Standing tall on an uncluttered horizon
The best new fiction of 2022
Swansongs and southern discomfort
Three new novels plough the furrow between popular and literary fiction
Head boy and head-scratchers
Come autumn, competing literary establishments parade their best
Remembering an “effervescently affable man”
Kurt Vonnegut at 100
Oldies made the best holiday companions
A trio of 20th century novels each offer a different desideratum for the discerning lounger
The rise and fall of Sad White Men
Novels about middle class male malaise are now considered passé but they were once both groundbreaking and shocking
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
