Publishers
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
New life for a dying trade
The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?
Disturbed by blurbs
On the ethics of literary marketing
Don’t believe the hype
The use of author testimonials to sell books is a performative exercise in gilding the lily
A farewell to Carmen
Why will there be no more Carmen Callils?
Publish and be cancelled
Unreadable and insufferable woke academics are boycotting the publishers that grudgingly print their inane work
A Room with a Feud
What happened to robust — and, yes, rude — literary criticism?
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
