Celebrity Authors
Celebrity crime novelists: the latest literary fashion
Crime and thriller titles have replaced Strictly Come Dancing as the new craze for celebrities
Pointless protest
Spare us the snooty superiority of “real” writers affronted by celebrity novels
The Critic Books Podcast: The Barn
The Barn is a history of the lives, landscapes, and lost ways of an old Yorkshire farm building
Rooms with a view
Will the law protect owners of high-rise flats from happy-snapping tourists?
The rise of meta-horror
In 2022, a new Scream film must face down more than monsters
Toppling law and order
The moment Colston went on trial, so did justice
Recanting decanting
An expensive evacuation of the Palace of Westminster has now fallen out of favour
Gaullism at a crossroads
The French Right faces its old demons and its moment of truth
How do we perceive the world?
This is the question Jordan Peterson tried to answer in his celebrated return to Cambridge
Hard Labour for Boris
Have cake, get others to eat cake, still have to pay for cake
The knife-wielding obituarist
Tom Sutcliffe’s obituary of composer Stephen Sondheim was ill-judged and vindictive
Classical architecture’s counter-attack
Reed’s great book exposes the ugliness and illiteracy of Modernism
Green light for hysteria
There are times when precaution stands in the way of what is right