Novels
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
J.K. Rowling is honest, not “nasty”
Attempts to discredit the author are increasingly pathetic
Satire, sci-fi and a sting in the tale
It’s time for our annual guide to the best new fiction of the year
Fielding Sterne questions
The novel world of English literature in the 1700s
Swansongs and southern discomfort
Three new novels plough the furrow between popular and literary fiction
Medicalising art
Literature needs better friends
Stand with Salman Rushdie
There should be no doubt
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
Prize-winner reprises and rediscovered tales
From Young Mungo to The Candy House: three new novels to read this month
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
