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The thrill is gone for lovers of fiction. Joseph Bottum on the strange death of the novel

Imagine how excited the board members of Barnes and Noble and Penguin Random House must have been when they came up with this genius idea

Or, the Manic Pixie Inclusive Totally Woke Dream Manuscript

My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide by Jessica Stern reviewed

The mysterious appeal of my first detective: A Slightly Foxed books Essay

Satan in New York

Ideas and theories were not Mencken’s meat and drink. Real people and social comedy were

New York Times author denounces New York Times for publicizing her book

Savage Messiah: How Dr Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization by Jim Proser reviewed

An exclusive extract from Daisy Dunn’s new biography of Pliny

How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter reviewed

A short story by Susan Hill

Spectator contributors choose their favorite titles of 2019

The founding father of 20th-century American conservatism was also a connoisseur of the supernatural and a bestselling novelist

Why do so many writers have a victim complex?

On Evan Connell’s novel of Kansas City: A Slightly Foxed books essay