Blake Bailey
Is biography having its very own reckoning?
Blake Bailey has become the latest figure to allegedly fall foul of the uncompromising moral standards of American publishing
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
