Writers
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
Show me the money
Why do authors so often have such difficulty extracting the fees they are owed?
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
