Writers
Creativity and chaos
Writers with biographies to match their books
A forgotten writer brought to life
Shirley Hazzard stuck doggedly to exploring love — a theme unfashionable even then
Murders for November
Gripping plots and dodgy prose for the autumn months
Danny Lestrange: Eternal Columnist
From the immaturity of young adulthood to the immaturity of old age
A literary master of wine
There’s a gap in the market for Andrew Jefford’s next great book
Against writers
But in praise of writing
A Yiddish colossus
Isaac Bashevis Singer would never have submitted to today’s ideological edicts
A cautionary tale
The lot of the writer today is one of insecurity, wounded pride and dwindling returns
On pretending to have read books
It is an art in itself
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Keep your kids off social media
Childhood is too precious to be turned into content
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Awards ceremonies are erasing women
Biological males should not receive awards intended for women
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Getting a handle on Handel
Robert Thicknesse and friends reflect on Handel and his heyday
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain