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David Szalay's Flesh is crisp, moving, experimental — and not a manosphere manifesto

November 23, 2025 2:47 pm

In the rush to tie every Booker winner to a cultural zeitgeist, David Szalay's Flesh has been anointed the latest ‘masculinity in crisis’ novel. It is much more than that, says this review.

Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter: A quiet, captivating book for the phone-frazzled mind

November 12, 2025 3:20 pm

Andrew Miller The Land in Winter, Booker Prize 2025 shortlist: This column's pick is for those who would like to slow down and concentrate, but are overwhelmed by the onslaught of 'content' all around. Andrew Miller makes you pay attention to fully savour his The Land in Winter.

Re-reading The Kite Runner: Empathy and redemption come all too easy as a winning formula

November 13, 2025 8:15 pm

On a closer reading, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner reveals how its moral simplicity and ready redemption make it both heart-warming and problematic.

Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: If Sally Rooney's characters had desi parents

November 20, 2025 12:53 pm

In true Sally Rooney fashion, Kiran Desai's beautiful, intelligent, tortured Sonia and Sunny eventually discover that love will save you. But their parents know what to do when being saved is not enough.

Wuthering Heights has a green-flag hero — we focus on the wrong couple

October 08, 2025 12:17 pm

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights Summary: Yet another Wuthering Heights adaptation, yet more injustice to Hareton Earnshaw. Here's why we keep fetishising two unhinged teenagers, Heathcliff and Cathy, while ignoring the redemptive love story Emily Bronte wrote.

Mom by day, monster by night: Why Nightbitch hits new parents hard

September 27, 2025 12:49 pm

New motherhood is a horror so mystical, so sacred, that pop culture flinches from it. It is impossible to describe those first few years of creating and raising a human in anything as mundane as words. Which is why Rachel Yoder resorts to magic.

If you take beauty on loan, what price do you pay? Alan Hollinghurst's book can tell you

September 11, 2025 1:56 pm

Alan Hollinghurst novel, The Line of Beauty analysis: With Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty back in conversation, we ask: can an aesthete ever be more than a spectator? Can proximity — to beautiful things and beautiful men — become possession?

Hamlet mental health: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, not AI, should be your therapist. Here’s why

September 11, 2025 1:56 pm

Shakespeare therapy, Hamlet life lessons: For 400 years, critics have debated the madness of Hamlet, the snarkiest edgelord to ever brood on stage. What explains the fascination with his mental health, and can he help you fix yours?

Pride and Prejudice back in cinemas: Lizzy is delightful, but Jane Bennet is the friend you need. Here's why

September 11, 2025 1:58 pm

Pride and Prejudice: Movie adaptations have often flattened Jane Bennet. But the strong, kind girl, who refused to perform and was forever willing to pass the mic, is the heroine we need today.

'Orbital', the Booker-winning space novel you should be reading now

September 11, 2025 1:58 pm

Your brain deserves more than hot takes and quick breaks, reels and scrolls. In this fortnightly column, we slow down and savour. We pore over books, and together rediscover how reading is a way to understand the world and ourselves. Today: Samantha Harvey's Orbital