The horror and the wonder of jellyfish
As a child, I lived in dread of jellyfish. As an adult, my horror turned to wonderment, love and awe.
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Caroline’s Bikini: a modern-day mash-up of Dante, Milton and metafiction
Kirsty Gunn’s novel questions myth, reality and our projections of love.
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Not your girl gang: why do we try to connect female writers who have nothing in common?
Michelle Dean’s Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion engineers a “cohort” of female writers as varied as…
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How public schoolboys run the anti-establishment
We already know that public school alumni dominate the system. But what about the movements that challenge it?
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Bill Clinton’s first foray into fiction writing is a thinly-veiled, cringe-worthy superhero fantasy
The President is Missing’s hero is an embattled Democratic president with “rugged good looks”. It’s not hard to see where…
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How manners made man
Without its own code of manners, any social group would dissolve into anarchy.
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Why humans are fascinated by birds
Our obsession with creatures of flight, from Homer to Hamlet to Hitchcock.
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Trump and the crisis in American diplomacy
Ronan Farrow’s War on Peace is a depressing, timely obituary for traditional American statecraft.
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