Fiction
The Critic Books Podcast: Latchkey Ladies
Marjorie Grant’s novel was out of print for over a century
Amis at 100: a master satirist without honour
It’s time to appreciate Kingsley Amis — flaws and all
The Critic Books Podcast: Cult writers
How does a writer become a figure of cultish renown?
There’s more to 1922 than just Woolf, Joyce, and Eliot
We should pay attention to Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim
Should we take Kingsley Amis more seriously as a poet?
The acclaimed novelist harboured dreams of writing verse
The Critic Books Podcast: Stewkey Blues
DJ Taylor’s new collection of short stories
A Room with a Feud
What happened to robust — and, yes, rude — literary criticism?
How to become a cult writer
What does it take for an author to become idolised way beyond their literary merit?
Do we really need so many stage adaptations of novels?
There’s much that can go wrong when the drama of a book is transferred to the stage
Welcome returns for three Irish writers
Why is the publishing industry so obsessed with debuts?
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
En rama drama
Spanish wine helps one escape the misery and damp of Britain
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Sunak must take the fight to Labour
Starmer has been allowed to escape criticism and accountability
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
Death in the shadows
The sad case of Sudiksha Thirumalesh
Why Meghan is my role model
The public needs to get to know the real Meghan
Don’t ask WhatsApp
Millions of messages, and sick of it
