Writers
Eccentricities and obsessions
Novels that say a lot without making lots of noise
Mark Scrivener: Literary freelancer
Cometh the 200,000-word Serbian novel, cometh the man
Holiday reads by the recently departed
1980s fiction might more profitably fill your beach-y or gîte-y afternoons
Excessive expectations
On writers and mental health
Mr (or Mrs) 15 per cent
The best agents are unobtrusive and make sure attention is focused on their writers
Think, write, publish
Russian literature is not bound to Russian politics
Words can never hurt?
A new satire skewers the publishing industry
Young, gifted — and readerless
Why have we never heard of most of the young writers on the latest “Best of …” list?
What’s in a nym?
How and why writers conceal their true selves
Don’t believe the hype
The use of author testimonials to sell books is a performative exercise in gilding the lily
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
