For 200 years the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) existed to “reward literary merit and excite literary talent”. Then one ...

Hanif Kureishi's Shattered is a collection of online dispatches that he dictated randomly to his wife, Isabella, and his ...

Sir Vidia Naipaul likes cats, so he cannot be all bad. There is a charming photograph which this magazine used four years ago to illustrate an interview with him. It shows the 2001 Nobel Laureate in ...

On the reading list this week is a coming-of-age story that’s also a tribute to the Indian rock scene, a new English ...

She is not the first to see Conrad as an incarnation of the new world that was coming into being during his lifetime. V S Naipaul, whose essay ‘Conrad’s Darkness’ (1974) probes deeper than anything ...

For many of Frank’s subjects, even the most arduously researched of nineteenth-century novels seemed artificial; through innovations in style, subject matter and narrative technique, they attempted to ...

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Paul Sinha was named Best Club Comic at the 2014 Chortle awards, seven years after being nominated for best breakthrough act. He was also nominated for the 2006 if.comeddie award at the Edinburgh ...