Novelist
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
The elegant extremist
Ian McEwan has always tempered his shocking stories with polished prose
The feud that made the modern age
A new book breathes new life into historical fiction
Rediscovering Martin Amis
He made reading, and writing, fun
An off-kilter visionary
Henry Green had a strange and distinctive talent
Remembering an “effervescently affable man”
Kurt Vonnegut at 100
The ascent of Barbara Pym
A chronicler of the overlooked, she has at last got her just literary deserts
Stand with Salman Rushdie
There should be no doubt
What’s behind that enigmatic smile?
The author of a new novel about the Mona Lisa explores the history of the world’s most famous painting
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Spies and butterflies
We should prepare for new modern forms of espionage
Nature neglected
In this election green policy only get airtime when it can be linked to jobs
Culture war, what is it good for?
Women will continue to battle for our rights
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
Not only a game
This is how it ends: the whimper, or the bang
Confidently Cantonese
Chowing down in the Royal China
Walter’s Arctic Circle is a winner
Welcome to a kaleidoscopic showcase of topical dramas in vivid settings
Defend Christian private schools
Keir Starmer’s tax raid would be bad for children, parents and the state
