English Literature
Canterbury Tales redux
Pilgrimage still serves to bring people together
Harold Pinter: from bad to verse
The playwright will not be remembered for his poetry
Why do we like Larkin so much?
On a love with limits
Virginia Woolf: Teflon goddess of the trivial
She was nasty, crude, racist and often a poor writer — so why is she revered?
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers
Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
A spy for all seasons
Who is the man behind “The IPCRESS File”?
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Tom’s curious heirs
Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform
The Bard of Balliol
Never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
