Almost everything about the Rudyard Kipling row is stupid
The choice of poem is crass, the protest is counterproductive, the media circus around it inane.
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Loki’s Diary: Now I’ve won an Orwell Prize I’m mixing with the literati
The Scottish rapper and author on the madness of the media circuit, meeting Orwell’s son and refusing to pronounce the…
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Annie Ernaux: the objective, unseen reporter of her times
Ernaux’s The Years draws not only on her own life but on her long “communal memory”.
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In praise of the pollinators: why bees are even more important than you think
The public is obsessed with the domestic bee, but most people don’t know how many different kinds of bee –…
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Laurence Scott’s Picnic Comma Lightning: how to read modern life
On selfies and Nabokov, Fitbit and Brexit, Scott’s book veers between the superficial and the illuminating.
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The Weight
The NS Poem: The Weight, in memoriam Danuta Danielsson
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Britain’s 20th-century industrial revolution
Why the old story of postwar British industrial decline is a myth.
ByGlen David Gold’s new memoir is smart, generous and gripping until the very last pages
I Will Be Complete is the tale of a boy’s moral and sentimental education, with all the febrile moods and…
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