Booker Prize
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
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
