Modern poetry’s sentimentality problem
Many years ago I found myself unable to avoid talking, on a semi-regular basis for a period of 48 months,…
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How the Economist shaped the liberal mind
Since its founding in 1843 the Economist has radiated an aura of omniscience. But its days of playing God may…
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Jonathan Coe’s Middle England: a delightful skewering of British nostalgia
There is a delicious irony in Coe taking aim at the past. The meta-joke of his fiction is that it…
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Julia Armfield’s Salt Slow is a dark take on life’s most threatening anxieties
Fantasies have always provided escapism. They expose the darker parts of life that we’d rather not confront through plain realism, instead…
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Jarvis Cocker: Sheffield in the 1980s, Tim Etchells, and how I lost sleep over theatre
What’s the opposite of nostalgia? I ask that question because Tim Etchell’s stories take me back to a time and…
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Theresa May’s might have beens
Evaluating Theresa May’s premiership.
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A cure of one’s own
After years of dismissal, a new wave of literature sees women confronting an epidemic of underdiagnosed chronic pain conditions.
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The Crouch dimension
The self-effacing centre-forward shines a light on the abuse, excesses and infantilisation of modern footballers.
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