CHARLIE TAYLOR - Freedom and nostalgia in Europe's post-communist periphery.

SEAMUS PERRY - Muldoon and McCartney: Seamus Perry on the two Pauls.

PAIGE ALLEN - Rebecca F. Kuang on her anticolonial Oxford fantasy novel.

ADRIAN KREUTZ - Lamenting the loss of the student revolutionary.

NICHOLAS CLARK - The shifting sands of Singaporean statecraft.

ADAM POSSENER - A new face for Yiddish.

ROBERT MERGES - Inflation in the Anthropocene.

ISABELLA CRISPINO - Is the climate crisis ushering in a new politics of the emotions?

KATHERINE FRANCO – Modernism in a post-internet age: celebrating the centenary of Ulysses.

LIAM JOHNSTON – Authentic accounts of class difference often require a complex effort to remember what has been deliberately left behind.

CATERINA DOMENEGHINI - Two perspectives on the crisis in our democracy.

CLEMMIE READ - On the women the literary superstars left behind.

KATE GREENBERG - Genre-defying writer Maggie Nelson teaches us how to be free.

EILEEN YING - Andrea Abi-Karam rises up against 'big daddy mainframe'.

CLAIRE ION - Construing the self as fluid.

ANNABEL JACKSON - Why is flash fiction the new vogue in literature?

by Helen Dallas Our Country's Good Timberlake Wertenbaker, 1988 The Playmaker Thomas Keneally, Hodder & Stoughton, 1987 In 1789, convicts...

YAGNISHSING DAWOOR - Is greater visibility always a good thing?

ANNA WINHAM - Diving down the rabbit hole of evangelical Youtube.

EMILY DYSON - If liberal and radical feminists were right that men won't save us, the state and market will not save us either.

ELEANOR HALLESY - The Right to Sex wants to inhabit the ‘uncomfortable, unsafe politics’ of the truly inclusionary.

Why do we continue to depend on 20th century language of dystopia today?

GAIA CLARK NEVOLA - Humans and the Bête Machine

ALEX CHASTEEN - Examining the undercurrents of female violence in Gothic fiction and domestic realism.

ANANYA AGUSTIN MALHOTRA - Putting minds back into bodies and keeping the body in mind

Our writers review this year's novels shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

GIANNI DI FALCO - Squid's debut album refuses to separate the personal and the political

THOMAS CLARK - A reflection on our everyday moments of sanity

RITA MAY - Angel's latest book explores the limits of sexual consent and what it means for sex to be 'good' today.

MICHAEL ROWAND - Yaffa’s new study of Russia’s cyberwarfare finds trade-offs in Putin’s political regime.

ANNABEL ROGERS - Taylor intertwines connection and disconnection with a sense of disgust...

JULES DESAI - Negarestani's philosophy of negative portraiture sheds light on the Nobel Prize-Winner Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel.

ALEXANDRA PUGH - Both An Apartment and King Kong Theory stage various forms of border crossing...

YAGNISHSING DAWOOR - A year after the protests sparked by George Floyd's murder, Black art reclaims joy amidst violence.

ANNA WEBER - A European Anglophile reflects on post-Brexit Britain

EMILY WILDER - A re-examination of the homophobic undertones in Buñuel and Dalí's 1929 film, Un Chien Andalou

LUCY THYNNE - the dazzling new novel from Rachel Cusk marks the height of this writer's career.

NICOLE JASHAPARA — 'our definition of "literary fiction" needs to be interrogated: the marketplace should not determine what is "original"'

REBECCA ABRAMS — In praise of full-stops and their authors.

KSENIA DUGAEVA — Megan Nolan's debut novel explores the realities of a toxic relationship and problematises female suffering.

ANNA WEBER — Has Daphne du Maurier been Chick-Flicked?

JOSEPH TURNER — Unravelling the ephemeral everyday in Leighton, Lafarge and Dugdale's latest collections.

HENRY WOODLAND – A call for poetic disorder, via Robin Williams, Ocean Vuong, and MFA programmes.

LIZ MURPHY – An analysis of what Joan Didion really means.

LUCY THYNNE – Is it possible to write a good internet novel?

MATHIAS GJESDAL HAMMER – Asking whether the Amazon CEO puts his money where his mouth is.

JULIA MERICAN & HENRY WOODLAND – 'Does the falling tree make a sound if it was not livestreamed on Instagram?'

SARAH SHEARD – A discussion of the 'static ideal' of the female body in art, from Praxiteles to Hambling.

TESS SOLOMON - The pandemic has exposed the ways in which time can both distort and be distorted.

GIANNI DE FALCO - A celebration of Black Country, New Road's self-reflexive triumph.