Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet takes a dark turn in Spring
Spring is the third instalment of Ali Smith’s Brexit-inflected “seasonal quartet”. The first, Autumn, appeared in October 2016, a mere…
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Sally Rooney’s Booker-longlisted Normal People shimmers with intelligence
Rooney is the best young novelist in years.
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Post-colonial party people: the revolutionaries of Algiers
The city of Algiers has been a byword for terror and corruption for so long now that it is hard…
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Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a banal and risible self-help book
Like an undergraduate struggling to reach the word count, Harari writes in pointless asides and cringeworthy platitudes of fortune-cookie quality.
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Leader: The enduring cultural influence of Winnie the Pooh
Still enraging the Eeyores of public life, 92 years on.
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Exit, pursued by a bear: how the real Christopher Robin escaped Winnie-the-Pooh
As a new Disney film imagines Christopher Robin as a careworn salaryman, AA Milne’s biographer recalls the boy behind the…
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The unexpected radical past of Essex
Behind the picture-postcard side of Essex is a history of non-conformism.
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Dancing in the endzone: a rare interview with Clive James
The author talks about Federer, Dante, Trump and his long struggle with leukaemia.
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