Results for "philip larkin"
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Philip Larkin: the man who was always right
The great man’s peerless poetry is not the “soppy stuff” of cheap romanticism, but a harsh, unsparing — and often beautiful — look at the world
Why hasn’t Philip Larkin been cancelled?
When Larkin is inevitably denounced, I’ll be reading his forbidden work by torchlight
Sharing the pleasure in poetry
James Booth reviews ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin’
The joys and misery of Monica
This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir
Like father, like son
Philip Larkin’s long association with Kingsley and Martin Amis resulted in the poet being misrepresented and misunderstood
How gown destroyed town
The decline and fall of the dreaming spires and their replacement by shuttered shops, sad cafés and mothballed pubs
The ascent of Barbara Pym
A chronicler of the overlooked, she has at last got her just literary deserts
Why do we like Larkin so much?
On a love with limits
Should we take Kingsley Amis more seriously as a poet?
The acclaimed novelist harboured dreams of writing verse
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
