There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard

We need interesting authors, not “big names”

The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?

There is a jarring disconnect between Michel Houellebecq’s critiques of sexual liberation and his dissolute lifestyle

Now languishing in undeserved obscurity, Tobias Smollett should be remembered

Henry Green had a strange and distinctive talent

On honesty as an attitude

An author who turned failure into success

Who will subvert today’s anti-establishment?