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
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
