The struggle of the female musician
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad reviewed
Books
Wednesday
Tuesday
Stephen Rubin, the publisher who speaks truth to power
‘If you’re publishing mostly books by people of color and people who are gay, then where’s the diversity?’
Friday
Trainspotting at thirty: an interview with Irvine Welsh
‘It would be very difficult, with the homogenization of culture, to publish a book like Trainspotting now’
Monday
Ford Madox Ford and the decline of the American WASP
They’re struggling to preserve their culture after generations of hedonism and nihilism
Friday
The return of Bret Easton Ellis
The American Psycho and Less Than Zero author discusses his first novel in thirteen years
Exclusive: Pentagon chief details January 6 riot response
Trump’s acting defense secretary Christopher Miller tells all in his new book
Wednesday
The books to watch out for in 2023
Hopefully the new year will see several stars burn brightly in the literary firmament
Tuesday
Of course: all the great women in history were actually men
It all makes sense now
Tuesday
The publishing mega-merger that wasn’t
Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster have failed to merge
The spy who loved me
Suleika Dawson’s account of her affair with novelist John le Carré has caused controversy. But she is unrepentant
Stephen Amidon’s day of the locust
A new novel explores the lengths communities will go to protect their own
Bob Dylan’s tower of song
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan reviewed
Was the Queen Mother ever really funny?
Do Let’s Have Another Drink!: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Gareth Russell reviewed
Friday
Bob Dylan’s curious book signing controversy
Can celebrities use an autopen? The times, they are a-changing
Wednesday
The spy novelist who became an Irish nationalist
Remembering Erskine Childers 100 years later
Monday
The Spectator’s 2022 Books of the Year
Our writers weigh in
The return of Cormac McCarthy
Arguably America’s greatest living novelist is back with two novels
Think autofiction is easy? Think again
There are relatively few rules beyond (perhaps) a disregard for plot
Joyce Carol Oates, a woman for all seasons
She remains one of American literature’s great survivors — and provocateurs
Debunking the grievance industry in our schools
A new book shows how the 1619 Project is being taught to students