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.

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…

By the time Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, <i>Fury</i>, was officially published in London on September 6, it had been murdered in the womb — assassinated by early reviews and…