Booker Prize
Finely-turned tales of mothers, murder and love
We need a system where books that publishers really love, where it’s not mere puff, get a special sticker on the front, says John Self
Error has no honorary positions
What the Booker binning Emma Nicholson means for the public square
A full stop in Sussex
Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub
Wolf bites back
X.Trapnel on the latest literary feuds and fancies
Confessions of the new Grub Street
The money is bad, the hours long and the white wine copious and cheap
Shed and buried
X.Trapnel on cakes, fakes and stocking fillers
Booker prize chumps
The inside line on the book world
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
