Literary Review
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
Wolf bites back
X.Trapnel on the latest literary feuds and fancies
Shed and buried
X.Trapnel on cakes, fakes and stocking fillers
Booker prize chumps
The inside line on the book world
The Crimean War
Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea
In China’s pocket
Tech UK is taking money from CCP-influenced tech giants to lobby UK politicians
Celebrity crime novelists: the latest literary fashion
Crime and thriller titles have replaced Strictly Come Dancing as the new craze for celebrities
Bollocks to Babel
The Erasmus scheme is a political project not designed to work well academically
Going nowhere
Covid-19 travel laws “may change with little warning”, so why plan ahead?
On Solzhenitsyn’s shoulders
The great writer’s intellectual heirs warn that collective rights obscure individual suffering
Old school ties
Fates in this unforgiving industry are long decided
Bleak streets
Freedom to die on the streets is no freedom at all
More leaks, Mr Speaker
If we leaked the entire budget to the opposition, we might get better government
August/September 2021: Letters to the Editor
Samuel Beckett is at his best when he’s being brief
Goodnight, Mr Bond
It’s time to let the man who saved the world, and the cinema, rest in peace.