Thinkers, writers and storytellers
Narrative, voice and good novels — not always at the same time
Dedication’s what you need
Down with the gratitude-bloat of authors’ endless lists of acknowledgements
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
Prize-winner reprises and rediscovered tales
From Young Mungo to The Candy House: three new novels to read this month
Welcome returns for three Irish writers
Why is the publishing industry so obsessed with debuts?
A return, a reissue, a brilliant new voice
The best, and the not-so-great, new fiction to read this month
TB or not TB: the literature of consumption
No infectious disease has left its scars on the body of literature like tuberculosis
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Tales of helping and helplessness
This selection of new fiction is marked by both novelty and tradition
Sparks, glitterballs and masterworks
The greatest works of fiction published this year
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
