Booker Prize
Debuts, comebacks and suprises
There are plenty of dead bodies here, but no dead air
Might this win the Booker?
Page-turning, socially intriguing and melodramatic to the point of campness
Booker candidates … and also-rans
The measure of a novel is not its ideas but how it animates those ideas
Seriously funny
David Lodge’s work appealed to the highbrow as much as lovers of lowbrow farce
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
Satire, sci-fi and a sting in the tale
It’s time for our annual guide to the best new fiction of the year
Knocking at the door of the Booker Prize
From an old-fashioned tale to a new-fashioned one, with a dash of dystopia
Prize-winner reprises and rediscovered tales
From Young Mungo to The Candy House: three new novels to read this month
Amis at 100: a master satirist without honour
It’s time to appreciate Kingsley Amis — flaws and all
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real