Crime Fiction
Britain’s strange fascination with serial killers
As crime dramas take over as the nation’s favourite television genre, Nigel Jones asks why we enjoy watching dramatic reenactments of sadistic murders
Murders for late February
From countryside crimes to mysteries on the waves, Jeremy Black recommends further reading from the British Library Crime Classics collection
The Scandi-noir plot to change Sweden
Sweden couldn’t have been as bad as depicted in Sjowall and Wahloo’s novels – after all it produced ABBA and Ikea
Murders ranging widely
Jeremy Black recommends an array of crime fiction novels, both modern and classic, to keep you entertained in January
Murders for January
Jeremy Black recommends the best murder mysteries to read in the New Year
What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart
Murder stories for December days
Jeremy Black makes his way through the British Library’s Crime Classics collection
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Why Sherlock Holmes remains the greatest detective
There is no need to make Sherlock Holmes more likeable, part of his brilliance is in his ambiguity
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
