Fiction
The Critic Books Podcast: Devotion
A story of love in nineteenth century Prussia and Australia
The Critic Books Podcast: Burntcoat
Burntcoat was one of the first “pandemic novels” to be published in the wake of Covid-19
Fuccboi: a load of modern toss
A failed American Psycho for the PornHub generation
The Critic Books Podcast: Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden is in conversation with Francesca Peacock
Tales of helping and helplessness
This selection of new fiction is marked by both novelty and tradition
The Critic Books Podcast: C J Carey’s Widowland
C J Carey speaks to Francesca Peacock about Widowland
Imaginary country
The land of Morbia was revealed to me in a dream
Thinly-veiled but enjoyable nonsense
Donald Trump should write a novel to at least give him the chance to deliver a bit of payback for this release by Hillary Clinton
Sparks, glitterballs and masterworks
The greatest works of fiction published this year
Male authors: the sun also sets
Give up writing, men – the world will be a happier place when you do
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
