Literature
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners
Dedication’s what you need
Down with the gratitude-bloat of authors’ endless lists of acknowledgements
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers
The monster that lurks within us
The enduring popularity of fantasy and horror fiction proves that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the Gothic novel
Literary festivals: sheer hell in a tent
To make people laugh for an hour is good business sense — but it says nothing about writing, or creativity, or art
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?
Love letter to the printed word
On the material culture of the book
TB or not TB: the literature of consumption
No infectious disease has left its scars on the body of literature like tuberculosis
How to be a literary editor
Done well, book reviews have never been more important
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
