G.K. Chesterton
Is it safe?
The torture of our new safety obsessed national psyche
An affront to justice
New safeguards are needed after the Post Office acted as investigator and prosecutor
Riffing on the poetic tradition
William Poulos says that in his wisdom and readability, Llewelyn Morgan serves his subject well
Novel weapons
Could we be unwittingly researching both sides of a hypersonic arms race?
David Hockney: An oyster without grit
An oyster without grit
The rise and fall of Bernie Madoff
The notorious fraudster Bernie Madoff has died in prison at the age of 82
Duchess of platitudes
The true tragedy of Meghan’s book will be the better writers left on the bench
I’m afraid of Americans
The culture war is not left against right, but the US against everyone else
Our Man about Town
On the merits of celebrity authors and literary book prizes
Where there’s a Will…
If plum roles started being handed out on the random basis of “artistic merit”, anarchy would surely reign…
Rehabilitation of a great stylist
Christopher Bray thinks Roth’s “novelist’s autobiography” is one of his most fizzing examinations of the stories that construct our various selves