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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Arabella Byrne |D.J. Taylor |Ian Buruma |Nigel Warburton
Caroline Calloway — “It” girl, Instagram phenomenon, scammer, grifter — wants to give you some advice. Except, like most things in Calloway’s world, it’s not that simple. What she actually wants is for Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation (1994), to give you some advice. But there’s just one problem: Wurtzel is dead. No matter: Calloway is stepping in, updating Wurtzel’s unpublished advice guide with some of her own insights and social-media savvy.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Nigel Warburton |Arabella Byrne |Philip Womack |D.J. Taylor
Just about everyone is for liberty, but we mean different things by it. Far-right libertarians want almost all constraints on their actions removed. They desire free markets, no unions, low taxes, free speech and the freedom to be very rich. The oppressed want freedom from tyranny: in extremis, they want to be free from jail and free to live without the threat of arbitrary arrest and torture.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | D.J. Taylor
The high-water mark of the American naturalist novel lasted for about forty years — the period bookended by Frank Norris’s 1899 McTeague and John Steinbeck’s 1939 The Grapes of Wrath, taking in along the way such highlights of the form as Upton Sinclair’s 1906 The Jungle, Sinclair Lewis’s 1920 Main Street and James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan trilogy of 1932-35.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | D.J. Taylor
This article is taken from the December-January 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. It is just after 10.30 on a chill January morning at the University of Clacton, and with the Interwar Class (Woolf, Eliot, Pound) safely disposed of and the Post-Colonial Voices seminar (Selvon, Emecheta, Rushdie) arriving at 11am, Dr Max Grubb, comfortably ensconced in his departmental office, is hard at work on a letter.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | D.J. Taylor
This article is taken from the December-January 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Q: Who, just under a century ago, wrote the following, and about whom?
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | D.J. Taylor
This article is taken from the November 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. The best place to see Izzy Hardcastle in action, as it were, is a publishers’ party or the memorial service for some grand literary eminence.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | D.J. Taylor
They’re everywhere, but which ones are best? D.J. Taylor shares his guide to the top podcasts to listen to this autumn. Get Instant AccessRegister for free to read this article in fullSubscribe for unlimited accessFrom just £30 quarterly Complete access to all Tablet website content including all premium content. The full weekly edition in print and digital including our 179 years archive. PDF version to view on iPad, iPhone or computer. Already a subscriber? Login
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
wsj.com | D.J. Taylor
Nick Harkaway’s novel delivers fresh Cold War intrigue for John le Carré’s redoubtable spymaster. Reanimating a fictional superhero from days gone by is one of the trickiest jobs in literature. It gets trickier still when the hero’s lineage is as complex and drawn-out as that of George Smiley, the late John le Carré’s legendary secret agent who first appeared on the bookshelves 63 years ago.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | D.J. Taylor
09 October 2024, The TabletThe day they bombed the GrandThe IRA atrocity 40 years onGet Instant AccessContinue ReadingRegister for free to read this article in fullSubscribe for unlimited accessFrom just £30 quarterly Complete access to all Tablet website content including all premium content. The full weekly edition in print and digital including our 179 years archive. PDF version to view on iPad, iPhone or computer. Already a subscriber? Login
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | D.J. Taylor
This article is taken from the October 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Dr Eric Fogey teaches modern English Literature at one of the smaller Cambridge colleges. He is a short, stout man with a red face, luxuriant muttonchop whiskers and an unfortunate habit of seeming to appear many years older than his actual age.
