Writers
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
The bad old days
The “golden years” of publishing were characterised by booze, bullying and amateurishness
Meeting the masses
With scant audiences and paltry remuneration, author’s tours can be far from glamorous
The death of the literary feud
When writers become fighters
Disturbed by blurbs
On the ethics of literary marketing
Publishing needs to be more diverse, but how?
Real pluralism is about ideas, not just identity
Boys need books
The gendering of publishing has gone too far
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
