Archive
The Tyranny of Family Life
Andrea Bajani’s The Anniversary
A veneration of girlhood
Taylor Swift meets the scholars
Welcome back, our poet of deadlock
After a decade of silence, Tom Paulin returns with a collection full of subtle, quiet, emotional wrangles
The art of deception
Le Carré’s biographer revisits the author’s manipulative love life
Tinker, tailor, lover, spy
Betrayal in the life of John le Carré
Always on their mind
Where poetry meets pop
Cathy comes home
The magnificent weirdness of Kate Bush
The spies who came back rather old
Chance discrepancies and omissions in a world where details matter
Direwolf hall
The penultimate season of the TV series Game of Thrones, and two books exploring the classical and medieval sources for the books and TV episodes
Geoffrey Hill
Obituary
Smirk Host Panegyric
The poems of J. H. Prynne
Pinned to the Wall
The letters of William Gaddis
In a hall of mirrors
David Foster Wallace’s posthumous unfinished novel
Too good for Paul
Luke Haines buries Britpop
A place of casual collisions
The poetry of John Redmond
Don’t look back
The lives and tales of Mark E. Smith
All this time on my knees
Sarah Maguire spins vast webs of interconnections from close observation
Cardigan arrest
Daljit Nagra’s debut collection
The Matter of England
A review of Simon Armitage
Daddy's growling girl
The poetry of Dorothy Molloy
Where have all the poets gone?
A disappointing shortlist at the 2006 T S Eliot Prize
A Writer’s Life: Glyn Maxwell
Giving a voice to the victims of 9/11
Margin of horror
The poetry of Richard Price
Voice of the Outback
An in-depth profile of and interview with the Australian poet Les Murray
Concentration, not consolation
The resistable rise of anthologies
Through the oval window
Why J. H. Prynne deserves wider acclaim
Repeat to fade
Peter Reading’s Collected Poems
Moving Voice
A profile-interview with the poet Thom Gunn
Light in the Wilderness
A profile-interview with Margaret Atwood
Faithful only to poetry
Marina Tsvetaeva’s hungry years
Leaves on the tracks
Bob Dylan and the academy
The space between the halves
John Wilkinson’s demanding and rewarding poetry
Englishmen and other natives
On Roget’s Thesaurus
The Praise Singer
A profile of the poet Geoffrey Hill
Schoolgirl capers
Philip Larkin’s lesbianism
A Passionate Partisan
Ian Hamilton’s posthumous Lives of the Poets
Art of Darkness
The poetry of Robin Robertson
Injurious to truth?
A review of Censorship: A World Encyclopedia
A change of address
Geoffrey Hill’s Speech! Speech!
The poet at play
A profile of Paul Muldoon
All Is Poetry
A brilliant reading of a misunderstood poet
Time to cough up
On keeping on smoking
Dismembering Kitty
Craig Raine's bathetic elegy, A La Recherche du Temps Perdu
Bathetic fallacies
Tony Harrison’s Laureate's Block
The misfit manager
The short and lonely life of 'the fifth Beatle'
Smoke gets in your mind
On giving up smoking
Below the belt
Sex and violence in Fight Club and Romance
Oedipus, king of slaves
An interview with Rita Dove
Scream!
Horror as a genre
Only a notion of the nation
A pop history of England
Why censors can't save us
An early call for media literacy
Taking the Flag route
Hard-working Henry Rollins
Warlike mincing
Ray Davies’s kinked memoir
Screening Polymorphous Perversity
What horror movies tell us about ourselves
Peripheral fever
Nico’s final days
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