September 2024

Anointed

Browse past editions

Twenty years on from Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Alexander Larman

Since its publication in September 2004, Susanna Clarke’s novel has sold millions of copies worldwide
Alliance

Mark Piesing

Giles Milton retells the story of the Grand Alliance as a cinematic thriller
sad-girl

Amelia Butler-Gallie

The peculiar appeal of ‘sad-girl literature’
Leith

D.J. Taylor

Examining children’s literature and its enduring worth
Kushner

Book Review August 19, 2024

Creation Lake is one of the best books of the year

Creation Lake is a book about how humans deal with what is deemed to be Other

Philip Womack

Thynne

Book Review August 19, 2024

Jane Thynne pulls off a new kind of spy novel

Midnight in Vienna channels the ominous parallels between the present-day rise of fascism in Europe and America with what happened in 1938

Amanda Craig

Art August 19, 2024

In the studio with Merche Gaspar

‘People seek me out because I do things in a certain way’

William Newton

Sylvester

Art August 19, 2024

The life of David Sylvester

The art critic was the master of being in the right place at the right time and with the right people

Saffron Swire

Culture

Books and Arts August 19, 2024

This month in culture: September 2024

What to watch this September

The Spectator