Literary Agents
Mr (or Mrs) 15 per cent
The best agents are unobtrusive and make sure attention is focused on their writers
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
The paranoid style in British centrism
Disinformation journalists? The call is coming from inside the house
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Diversion, disruption and distinction
Being memorable and sticky guarantees a novel a long and healthy life
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
Twitter’s doxxing problem
Social media “outings” expose serious lapses in legality and digital morality
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes