Young, gifted — and readerless
Why have we never heard of most of the young writers on the latest “Best of …” list?
Don’t believe the hype
The use of author testimonials to sell books is a performative exercise in gilding the lily
Show me the money
Why do authors so often have such difficulty extracting the fees they are owed?
Bring back plain English
Most literary criticism is don addressing don, in a style designed to exclude ordinary people
The new establishment
Who will subvert today’s anti-establishment?
A farewell to Carmen
Why will there be no more Carmen Callils?
First find your clique …
Whatever one’s attachment to noble causes, it’s more fun to write for the right-wing press
No country for old men
Publishers get rid of talented editors whose worn faces don’t fit their youth-focused world
A cautionary tale
The lot of the writer today is one of insecurity, wounded pride and dwindling returns
The fame game
Why has talking about books become the preserve of know-nothing celebrities?
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united