Books
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
Carr’s sound, satisfying, and solid creations
A new book on an inventive, unjustly underrated, provincial architect is handsome but flawed
Murders for the New Year
From Oxford to Italy, the murders continue in 2024
The bad old days
The “golden years” of publishing were characterised by booze, bullying and amateurishness
Satire, sci-fi and a sting in the tale
It’s time for our annual guide to the best new fiction of the year
Disagree with this author? Racist!
Andrews’ view of the world is a fringe sliver of what ethnic minorities think about Britain
Tales of Gallipoli
New books keep history alive, as it should be
The celebrity trap
Women are punished for becoming the objects they are required to be
Military history is set to repeat itself
In a recession-ridden Britain, another European war seemed unthinkable
A magnificent update — for good and ill
Only one with a slightly deranged confidence could ever have attempted it
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
Try Christianity
Reflecting on the cross, we find a truth that is often too easy to forget
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
