Pseudonym
What’s in a nym?
How and why writers conceal their true selves
Will the real Elena Ferrante please sit down?
It is her words and voice, not her purported identity, that matter to her fans
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
