Sally Rooney
The satisfaction of small pleasures
The most anticipated book of the year, a Booker Prize nominee and a posthumous release: John Self on three new, big releases this month
Log on, tune in, burn out
Dan Hitchens weighs the charge sheet against baby boomers, who stand accused of creating a precarious world of low pay and endless work
Decline of the English novel
Bereft of God and middle class values, authors are left with identity politics
Abnormal People
The TV adaptation that reflects the falsity of campus novels
Colour conundrum
A lasting love-affair with Chartreuse
Leave those kids alone
You have to wonder what the government has against the young
The same old misogyny
A feminist student society has taken legal action against the Bristol Student Union for sanctioning their women-only spaces
In China’s pocket
Tech UK is taking money from CCP-influenced tech giants to lobby UK politicians
Australia first
What are we supposed to fight for in the Pacific? Is it for Australia or for the sake of US pre-eminence?
To catch a culture thief
A vast global market in stolen and forged art and artefacts has only grown in the context of the pandemic, but technology and international policing may be catching up
Rule of silence
Good laws can’t be made if we don’t talk about them, and bad laws can’t be repealed in silence
The curse of the Next Big Thing label
Picking sport’s winners and losers when they are so young is a mug’s game
Failed state
How history makes rioters of the French
Eat, pray, hate
Claudia Savage-Gore threatens to call the divorce lawyers
Sinn pain
Sinn Fein has gained the top spot in Irish politics despite its violent past