Arty Types
The Committee of the Edwin Savage Society
What arouses such fascination in this obscure literary figure?
Delilah Sampson: Conceptual artist
Spectacular fraud, beguiling hippy or both?
Mairead McSweeney
“Irish” novelist
Mark Scrivener: Literary freelancer
Cometh the 200,000-word Serbian novel, cometh the man
Celestria Parfit
Culture could not survive without such austere archivists
Jack Tagg: Beacon of provincial culture
An eccentric force for cultural good
Dierdre Malone
Marginal Presence
Jayne Payne
Counter-cultural survivor
Freddie Simmons
An author who turned failure into success
Gretchen Bellamy: Kindly Reviewer
Is there a book she doesn’t like?
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
