Fiction
Murders for the summer
A bounty of bloodshed
Eccentricities and obsessions
Novels that say a lot without making lots of noise
Holiday reads by the recently departed
1980s fiction might more profitably fill your beach-y or gîte-y afternoons
Words can never hurt?
A new satire skewers the publishing industry
Young, gifted — and readerless
Why have we never heard of most of the young writers on the latest “Best of …” list?
Knocking at the door of the Booker Prize
From an old-fashioned tale to a new-fashioned one, with a dash of dystopia
In defence of fandoms
One of the Internet’s villains has a brighter side
Snaps, crackles and Pop Art
Things you didn’t know you were interested in — until someone wrote a good book about them
Pains and pleasures of anticipation
The best sort of debut isn’t actually the author’s first book
Putin, Shute and nukes
How much should we fear nuclear war?
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
