Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
On and off the road
Jack Kerouac’s reputation should rest on his whole oeuvre — not just his most famous novel
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
The other Elizabeth Taylor
Discover “one of the finest novelists of her and our time.”
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
