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
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
The coming Tory crack-up
The MPs are at odds with the members
We need to talk about Sex Education
Relationship and Sex Education classes for children are being taken over by outside providers with their own agenda
Language, truth and logic
Talking to Stella Creasy is never easy
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
Good and evil on the new frontier
Our current ethical guidelines are hopelessly inadequate for a new era of unimaginable technological change
Lavender letters
Bozza has left the building
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
The Thirty Years War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
