Lady C by Guy Cuthbertson review – how Lady Chatterley’s Lover rocked Britain
A history of the social and cultural impact of DH Lawrence’s novel shows how it inspired comedy as well as controversy
April 2026
On Memoir by Blake Morrison review – lessons in life writing from a master
Don’t be fooled by the A-Z treatment – this thoroughgoing guide asks deep questions about the art of autobiography
March 2026
Alexander Kluge, author and key film-maker in the New German Cinema movement, dies aged 94
A winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, Kluge was a committed pacifist and one of the last living torchbearers of the Frankfurt school of neo-Marxist cultural criticism
February 2026
Book of the day
On Morrison by Namwali Serpell review – a landmark appraisal of the great novelist’s work
Serpell leaves no stone unturned in her deep and enriching portrait of the Nobel laureate’s oeuvre
January 2026
Book of the day
A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken review – here’s how to really write your novel
The novelist and writing tutor delivers bracing advice that demolishes familiar ‘stick to what you know’ nostrums
December 2025
The Master of Contradictions by Morten Høi Jensen review – how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain
A vivid account of the creation of one of literary modernism’s greatest achievements
November 2025
Book of the day
In Love With Love by Ella Risbridger review – a sexy celebration of romantic fiction
From Pride and Prejudice to Fifty Shades, a writer’s paean to the literature of desire
October 2025
Book of the day
After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal
The playwright’s only living descendant traces the shadow cast by his trial – and his rehabilitation as a gay icon
September 2025
The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating
Ben Walter
MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value
August 2025
Book of the day
Authority: Essays on Being Right by Andrea Long Chu review – scorching hot takes
The Pulitzer-winning critic has some choice words for the likes of Zadie Smith, Hanya Yanagihara and Bret Easton Ellis
March 2025
George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father
The literary giant’s only child reflects on his father’s devotion in their days together in rural Scotland, his early death, his genius as a writer – and his reputation as a womaniser
Other lives
Norman Page obituary
Other lives: English lecturer who was a prolific author and editor of books on writers and their literature
Other lives
Letter: Cora Kaplan obituary
Other lives
Cora Kaplan obituary
Book of the day
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney review – the women behind the woman
February 2025
In brief: May Our Joy Endure; The Future of the Novel; Literature for the People – review
A sharp satire set in the world of architecture; a fresh take on present-day fiction; and the rags-to-riches history of the Macmillan publishing brothers
January 2025
David Lodge obituary
Booker prize-nominated author and critic who was known for his Catholic novels and satires on academic life
December 2024
Book of the day
What in Me Is Dark by Orlando Reade review – the afterlife of Paradise Lost
The writers, philosophers and politicians who have raided Milton’s epic poem for inspiration
‘How many dead Palestinians are enough?’ The unbearable prescience of the late poet Refaat Alareer
The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change
Book of the day
Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel review – 100 years of magical thinking
Edwin Frank’s finely judged survey of modern fiction from Dostoevsky to Sebald will have you reaching for novels you hadn’t thought about in years
