Democracy on the ballot

Helen Oyeyemi on the perils of Prague

Book Review

It’s hard to say what Parasol Against the Axe is about

Francesca Peacock

The campus novel, which no one under forty-five will have heard of, celebrated the absurdities of academics

Howard Jacobson

‘People do follow our books… they’ll buy a book without necessarily knowing who the author is’

Sam Leith

Fake books can convince only if nobody tries to read them

Emily Rhodes

Books

The temperature might have soared but there’s plenty of good lit to look forward to

Micah Mattix

Education
April 18, 2022
Stop reading
Literacy is overrated
Peter W. Wood
Books
January 20, 2022
Reading during a pandemic
There have always been brilliant books limited to small spaces and situations
Francesca Peacock
Books
December 4, 2020
The Spectator’s Books of the Year 2020
The Spectator’s writers and friends recommend the best books, richest reads and most pandemical page-turners of 2020
The Spectator
Books
April 27, 2020
Why men don’t read books anymore
Lockdown has been more illustrative of the gender gap in reading than any event I can remember
Will Lloyd