Literature
What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart
Festive nuts and spice
Nancy Mitford’s 1932 festive novella ‘Christmas Pudding’ is the tonic 2020 is crying out for
Is it time to cancel Roald Dahl – or to celebrate him?
We should treat Roald Dahl as a naïve and unworldly man who never entirely left the realm of make-believe
The lives of philosophers
British philosophy has become much more interesting, but they just don’t make philosophers like they used to
A warning to the curious
Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer
Freedom and solitude
Loneliness is not just a side-effect of Coronavirus: it’s been here for a while
Has publishing gone woke?
It is the duty of a responsible publisher to reflect the intellectual and social diversity that exists across the world
A Royal fogey reassessed
Understanding George and his reign is crucial to our post-progressivist consideration of the history of patriotism
A fanatic heart
On the 50th anniversary of his public suicide, Nigel Jones reflects on the strange life and bizarre death of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima
Murder stories for December days
Jeremy Black makes his way through the British Library’s Crime Classics collection
