Novels
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
Should we take Kingsley Amis more seriously as a poet?
The acclaimed novelist harboured dreams of writing verse
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
