Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale. Robin Ashenden 11 Jul 2023 · 12 min read
The Sorrow and the Self-Pity Michel Houellebecq’s new memoir reveals a man quick to find fault with others but slow to accept responsibility for his woes. RJ Smith 26 Jun 2023 · 8 min read
‘The Princess Bride’ at 50 A look back at William Goldman’s bonkers metafictional novel ‘The Princess Bride,’ which later became a much-loved family film. Kevin Mims 19 Jun 2023 · 18 min read
Roald Dahl’s Forgotten Novel, 75 Years On Before finding fame as a children’s author, Dahl penned the first novel on nuclear war to be published after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Christian Kriticos 12 Jun 2023 · 14 min read
The Sardonic Inferno At its best, Amis’s fiction broke open the locked door behind which our culture tries to keep its skeletons hidden. Matt Hanson 2 Jun 2023 · 7 min read
The Dualism of Duluoz An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosia’s splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man. David S. Wills 1 Jun 2023 · 15 min read
The Hammett and Chandler of Gay Detective Fiction How the books of George Baxt and Joseph Hansen changed the genre. Kevin Mims 30 May 2023 · 17 min read
The Girl of the Endless Summer How ‘Gidget’ helped to put surfing on the map. Kevin Mims 12 May 2023 · 20 min read
The Man Who Invented the Modern Cop Novel Joseph Wambaugh’s crime fiction has been much imitated but seldom equalled. Kevin Mims 23 Apr 2023 · 20 min read
Orwell and Socialism Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology. Michael C. Anderson 21 Apr 2023 · 7 min read
How Do We Define ‘Life’? An excerpt from 'The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos.' Lawrence M. Krauss 17 Apr 2023 · 6 min read
Remembering Rumpole John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence. Kevin Mims 1 Apr 2023 · 19 min read
Hormones First. Research Later A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’ Bernard Lane 14 Mar 2023 · 13 min read
Do We Still Need a Women’s Prize for Fiction? It is time to consider retiring awards segregated by the sex of the author. Josh Allan 10 Mar 2023 · 7 min read
