Ian McEwan
A long shelf life
Our need for physical books is greater than ever
The elegant extremist
Ian McEwan has always tempered his shocking stories with polished prose
More like a lecture
“Lessons” is Ian McEwan at his worst
Joe Wright: Auteur of awfulness
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal
Time the Old Gang departed
The Amis/Barnes/McEwan generation have dominated the book scene for too long
Most Read
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over