A boring night in Zaporizhia
Hope and struggle in a city with no time for fatigue
Disturbed by blurbs
On the ethics of literary marketing
Excessive expectations
On writers and mental health
Think, write, publish
Russian literature is not bound to Russian politics
Kherson — the city that never sleeps
The daily Ukrainian struggle to survive
(Some) Writers Wanted
The drive for diversity can lead to discrimination
Sense and sensitivity
Some readers need thicker skins
The art of literary celebrity
How do writers become more than their books?
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
Why do women bear the brunt of literary censorship?
Cancellation is the modern manifestation of public shaming culture
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
Free speech and fashionable hypocrisy
Between the Tory government and the University and College Union, will anyone be consistent?
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
