Amanda Craig

Jan 7, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Julie Bindel |Amanda Craig

The oft-heard injunction to “be kind” was once a softly-spoken admonishment by parents to misbehaving children, but more recently has been commandeered by trans activists, and almost always directed at women – especially feminists like me who refuse to capitulate to gender lunacy. As I first wrote in my book Feminism For Women, four years ago, feminism has been rebranded and repackaged by others as a “just be kind and nice to everyone” cause.

Jun 9, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Amanda Craig

My mother Zelda is beautiful. And now, almost 97, she is still intelligent, funny, gentle and charming. Today I have a wonderful relationship with her, but for many years it was so bad that I used to wonder whether we would ever speak to one another again. When I was a child, I didn't (unlike some little girls) want to be her, but I loved her so intensely I would have died to protect her. She was a kind of real-life Cinderella who had lost her own mother aged just two.

Jan 31, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Jake Kerridge |Bernardine Evaristo |Salman Rushdie |Amanda Craig

Some Fellows have been shocked at the RSL's silence over Salman Rushdie's attack Forget the entry in Who’s Who or the honorary degree: for most eminent writers, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature is the distinction that means most to them.

Jan 8, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Amanda Craig

Cartoon of Wilkie Collins, as featured in Vanity Fair, 1872 Credit: Corbis via Getty Images Many years ago, I was in crisis. As a result of university, I had come to hate reading, an experience all too familiar to those who study literature.

Oct 1, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Amanda Craig

Exactly a hundred years ago this month, Dorothy L Sayers published Whose Body?, introducing her hero Lord Peter Wimsey, and launching a series of 11 novels that changed the detective genre forever. Sayers’s enchanted world of Bright Young Things and Bloomsbury Bohemians, a world in which a successful author could afford to take a six-month holiday, is now steeped in nostalgia.