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All Possible Plots by Major Authors

We praise canonical authors for their boundless imagination. Then why do all their plots feel the same?

Mild Swimming

Reporting live on Photogenica Moneyshire, last seen at Highgate Ponds.

Conversations with Friends about Sally Rooney

An epistolary inquiry into the zeitgeist, the novels, the publishers and me.

Chef Bites Back: Giles Coren

Food critics love to dish it out – and make a tidy sum doing so – but no one puts them under the spotlight. Until now.

English Lit. Canon and their Current Views on Brexit

Daniel Defoe photoshops Marina Hyde articles, and Chaucer just has a bizarre obsession with Anna Soubry.

12 Rules For Getting Your First Book Published

Our anonymous literary maven tells you how to get published.

Evelyn Waugh: Fictive Seer

Examining the links between England's leading post-war novelist and Brexit.