Unreliable narrators and uncooperative protagonists

I Suffer Therefore I Am: Portrait of the ...

Pulse Cynan Jones (Granta, £14.99) Saints Tim MacGabhann ...

The arts sector has long been unthinkingly in thrall to the supposedly “progressive” left but a coherent, coordinated, conservative strategy could, and should, shift the consensus

SARAH DITUM

Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,