Writers
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?
Prophet of the end of liberalism
John Gray at 75
Lifting the mask of a mercurial master
Soden shares the spoils of untrammelled access: vivid evidence of the man not seen
Against conservative clichés
What conservatives talk about when they talk about conservatism
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today