Writers
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
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
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
