Results for "philip larkin"
Tales of helping and helplessness
This selection of new fiction is marked by both novelty and tradition
The enduring power of brief encounters
A trio of novels that are connected by their surprising manner of finding their way to us
The demise of the second-hand bookshop
Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller
The worst hangovers in culture
Rest assured that these types had it considerably worse than you, says Alexander Larman
Cheques and balances
John Self says that while writing has always been seen as a vocation, the characters many authors care most about are the ones printed on their royalty statements
Tragedy of the little Darlings
The relationship between J.M. Barrie and the real life Peter Pan was fatherly, friendly and perhaps something else
Is Saul Bellow Martin Amis’s true father?
Reviews of Martin Amis’s new book prove that the best questions are the ones that no one asks
How to become a cult writer
What does it take for an author to become idolised way beyond their literary merit?
Remember them more honestly
We should change the way we commemorate our war dead
Poet who wrote for all of us
Daniel Johnson says that Clive James’s enduring legacy is his verse
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
