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John Sutherland pays tribute to novelist, critic and academic Dan Jacobson, who broke the literary mould.
It’s not, like, acceptable that the language is being mangled for the sake of expediency. But whatever.
Frank Kermode, Britain’s foremost literary critic, tells John Sutherland why English literature needs to become a tough subject again.
Richard Reeves is a business analyst and co-founder of Intelligence Agency, an ideas consultancy. One of his biggest-selling ideas is happiness — or, as some would put it,…
Mark Jaccard’s advice on climate change, the imminent exhaustion of fossil fuels and the end of civilisation as we know it is: "Don’t panic." But he is not an out-of-touch…
The vitriol Jacqueline Rose’ ideas have provoked is, perhaps, more startling than the ideas themselves. After Rose spoke on the winning side in a public debate on Zionism in…
The Boys from Brazil is one of Julian Savulescu’s favourite movies. That would not raise an eyebrow, were it not for the fact that his main interest as Uehiro professor of…
The Jackson trial pollutes everything it touches: Peter Pan, motherhood, circus elephants–above all, American justice. One presumes the man (man?) is innocent. But does anyone…
If Internet piracy is hurting Hollywood so much, why is the US box office healthier than ever? Far from destroying the film industry, movie downloading has made it raise its…
How do American parents punish their naughty children? They reach for the Tabasco and tongue spank.
The publishers of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male did not expect much when the study was published in 1948. The author, Alfred C Kinsey, was a scientist highly esteemed among…
The Democrats can count on the sell-out movie (Fahrenheit 9/11); the Republicans, a book (Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry) that is already…
It was America’s ”virtuous majority” (as they conceive themselves) who made George Bush president. He keeps these core voters sweet by appointing aggressively virtuous…
On Ash Wednesday 2004 we’ll find out just how tough Mel Gibson really is. That’s the day he’s chosen for the release of his film The Passion depicting the last hours of Christ’s…
A puzzle for you: name a truly brave politician. One of my nominations would be Robert J Dole. In 1998 Pfizer Corp recruited the senator for the launch of their new wonder drug,…
The season for quizzes is over. But try this. What was Jim Morrison convicted for in March 1969? Easy. Waving his ”snake” in front of 13 000 fans (and one lucky photographer) at…
However cramped for space, soldiers have always taken books into battle, writes John Sutherland.
NON omnis moriar, says the Latin poet: not all of me will die. So which body parts do we want to live after us? Thanks to US science you really can cheat death – or bits of you…
As Jeffrey Archer goes to jail for perjury, John Sutherland dips into his oeuvre and finds it eerily prophetic.
