Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf: Teflon goddess of the trivial
She was nasty, crude, racist and often a poor writer — so why is she revered?
There’s more to 1922 than just Woolf, Joyce, and Eliot
We should pay attention to Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim
How to become a cult writer
What does it take for an author to become idolised way beyond their literary merit?
We should be afraid of Virginia Woolf
Woolf’s statue is the latest to come under review
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Hermione Simper
Although Hermione rarely names names or dishes dirt with quite the enthusiasm that her mother did, then she too has her tales to tell
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Woolf: heart or brain?
Unfettered praise of Virginia Woolf as a “liberated writer” has paved the way for an inexplicably popular type of bad writing
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
