Literature
Behind the ‘horror renaissance’ – UnHerd
“Hell is empty,” declares Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, “and all the…
Stop trying to race-swap Shakespeare
My reaction on reading headlines like ‘Shakespeare was a black woman’ is very…
The Adelaide Writers’ Festival: killed by hypocrisy and intolerance
‘Sally Rooney is a young author with a young audience and she’s asking people to…
Why Moby-Dick nerds keep chasing the whale
Moby-Dick is notoriously impenetrable and impossibly rich. It might be the only…
Is Piers Morgan right to declare woke dead?
Donald Trump’s issuing of over 200 executive orders back in January 2025, which…
The triumph of anti-art – UnHerd
Interwar Paris was a world-historic cultural incubator, one of the most fertile…
Meet the bard of the Boxing Day hunt
This morning, hunts across England and Wales will gather for their last Boxing…
David Walliams deserves the presumption of innocence
I don’t care whether you like David Walliams or not, the way he has been treated…
The vital, democratic spirit of John Carey
John Carey, who died last week aged 91, was a man of broad democratic instincts.…
Inside the Jane Austen theme park
Jane Austen didn’t even like Bath, and she stopped writing when she lived here —…
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