Britannia Unchained: the free-market book that defines Boris Johnson’s cabinet
The libertarian tract’s policies and co-authors – Dominic Raab, Priti Patel, Liz Truss – are at the heart of the…
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Brooke Magnanti’s The Sex Myth review: How Belle de Jour got her figures wrong
Brooke Magnanti’s skewering of others’ bad stats is excellent. It’s a shame she isn’t blameless herself.
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C S Lewis’s story has already been told: why we don’t need a new Narnia book
This is a story about something that happened at the turn of the present century. In those days, Harry Potter…
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Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond is earthy and dark – and very hard to write about
Like Lydia Davis, Bennett uses a solitary, highly educated female narrator who contemplates chores with a literary-linguistic cast of mind.
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HG Wells’s forgotten fiction
HG Wells is best known for his science fiction, but in Tono-Bungay the alien invaders are those attempting to climb…
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Play fights: the joys and the dangers of video games
Challenging the hysteria and questionable science around video-game use.
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Climate change’s lost ground
In the late 1970s the opportunity to halt global warming was within our grasp. Spurning it turned a crisis into…
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The Irish writers reinvigorating the personal essay
From Emilie Pine to Sinéad Gleeson, new Irish writers are producing essays that are at once fragmentary, fluid, personal and expansive.
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