Bringing back the Net Book Agreement would be a good start for badly-paid authors

Hannah Betts chooses chic alternatives to dull sweatpants

George Orwell has a gift for the unusual and the memorable that means that even his half-forgotten novels are well worth discovering once again

Highsmith was a great writer, with a moral vision bracing enough to clarify the terrors of the twentieth century

At times Portrait of a Muse feels like a Julian Fellowes soap opera where we see this woman of extraordinary vivacity making great men go weak at the knees

At the end of a dismal year, consider the cult dystopias of the optimistic 1990s.

The Comeback is a gutsy British response to a period of glum hardship

Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist

Even the venerable and conservative Louvre is exploring various fundraising novelties, says Michael Prodger

The coronavirus pandemic has decimated the nightclub industry, but will the shifting landscape sow the seeds for an entirely new era of clubbing?