Books
Celebrity crime novelists: the latest literary fashion
Crime and thriller titles have replaced Strictly Come Dancing as the new craze for celebrities
Woke identity politics and the corporatist agenda
Vivek Ramaswamy speaks to Oliver Wiseman about the undemocratic nature of corporate woke identity politics
The millennial bibliophile
Too many books, too little space and the insecurity of renting
Such, such were the goys
Jonathon Green says the xenophobic 1920s novels that inspired his lifelong love of literature should not be cancelled
The belief system doesn’t add up
How the quest to eliminate sex in civil society taps into a dark truth about male power and sexuality
Strap In, or Strap On?
Why is Prince Harry publishing a memoir?
Publish — or be damned
There’s no wonder that books are becoming more conformist when freedom of expression is being curtailed
Burning the books
Should writers be allowed to destroy their own work?
Re-building a library
Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic
Faustian bargains of the review world
Jeremy Black delves into a history book which disappoints and a biography not to be missed
May: Letters to the Editor
The campaign to cancel Seeley is grotesque
The war in Ukraine may have only just begun
Campaign Diary: Russia is playing a long game and tapping into its Soviet past
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
On and off the road
Jack Kerouac’s reputation should rest on his whole oeuvre — not just his most famous novel
Whose day is it today?
We’ve hit on the perfect way of denying women a social and intellectual heritage
Sensation painting
The many women in white at the Royal Academy are just one aspect of Whistler’s brilliance
The resurrection of France?
A third way to the cynical politics of Macron and Le Pen exists
Manager or meme?
Is Musk’s takeover of Twitter a good thing, a disaster, or just very funny?
The lady vanishes
TV adaptations have masked the complexity and skill of Agatha Christie
Geopolitics and the invasion of Ukraine
What lessons does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have for the study of geopolitics?
Set an example
If the premiership is a monarchy, our kings need better advisers