Fiction
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?
Tabloid fiction
A new book on journalism gets it wrong
Bret Easton Ellis — the enfant terrible who finally grew up
How he at last lived up to his promise
Secret sex lives in Victorian England
Prepare to fall in like with three new books
Standing tall on an uncluttered horizon
The best new fiction of 2022
Murders for September
Past and future killings
Thinkers, writers and storytellers
Narrative, voice and good novels — not always at the same time
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?
Prize-winner reprises and rediscovered tales
From Young Mungo to The Candy House: three new novels to read this month
Reasons to be cheerful
Ten things that are wonderful about British racing
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
“Trad” theatre can still feel fresh
West End strikes a balance between keeping their spine and nostalgic appeal, whilst avoiding creakiness
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Summer for sale
Cricket has always bent with the winds of change
The incarnation of vice
Sex, gypsies, smoking, smugglers, sex, bullfighting, murder, and did we mention…sex?
Why “buffer stocks” don’t work
Yet again, economists have failed to understand Smith
Strawberry fields? Never
The idea of toughening zoomers up with hard labour is a pointless fantasy
Tee is for trend
Banish your inner Ted with a t-shirt
Dear Keir, get real
Instead of announcing grand new doctrines, it’s time for a very British realism
The Road to the Cass Review — (5) Lord Moonie
How one “awkward sod” refused to follow the trend on gender
