Joseph Conrad
Virginia Woolf: Teflon goddess of the trivial
She was nasty, crude, racist and often a poor writer — so why is she revered?
Mass confusion
The Conservative elites are no match for superheroines like Greta Thunberg and Charlotte Proudman
The incarnation of vice
Sex, gypsies, smoking, smugglers, sex, bullfighting, murder, and did we mention…sex?
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
Turn down that bloody music
Historic occasions shouldn’t be ruined by narcissistic prats
The school as a battleground
Michaela defeat will not deter Islamist designs on schools
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Eyes on the prizes — and the surprises
Every literary season has a book that comes from nowhere and seems to gallop ahead of the competition