In the magazine this month
July/August 2010
Men are living for longer than ever and their late-life crises provide a rich seam for the novelist to mine
My charming, beautiful, articulate and witty daughter-in-law, Catherine Ostler, who edits Tatler, had a sneak preview of my new novel, The Misogynist, and told me that it belonged to the genre "Git Lit" — at the other opposite end of the spectrum from "chicklit". She was too polite, or too mindful of the importance of irenic relations within a family, to call it a "gaga saga". The publishers are happy with this categorisation. They put the novel's protagonist, Geoffrey Jomier, in the company of other "grumpy old men", no doubt hoping to entice the admirers of Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils, which won the Booker Prize in 1986, or those who have enjoyed the recent novels of Philip Roth. Or Justin Cartwright. Or Ian McEwan's Solar?
RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS
An update on a controversial article — appearing on the site this Thursday — which sheds light on the shocking treatment of two priests prior to the Papal visit
CARMEL GOULD
The unique reality for many Palestinians living in Lebanon is that their refugee status has become hereditary
MICHAEL WEISS
If Lebanon's unprovoked attack on an Israeli maintenance team was premeditated, it points to something darker on the horizon
DENIS MACSHANE
Britain should support Turkey's European ambition. Criticising Israel's policy on Gaza is not the way to do it
CLAUDIA SCHWARTZ
By hijacking the Palestinian cause, the non-Arab world has perpetuated the conflict for its own regional standing. The Arab world must reclaim it
DAVE RICH
The Gaza flotilla incident tells us much about the state of the alliance between Islamists and leftists in Europe
WALTER LAQUEUR
Increasing numbers of Muslims on the continent are only part of the story. The real problem is not immigration but integration
CHRIS WOODHEAD
The new Education Secretary's anti-statist revolution must live up to his rhetoric by allowing schools to set their own admissions policies
ALEXANDER WOOLFSON
The forthcoming defence review must answer our need to be able to face unpredictable threats
CONRAD BLACK
Politicians sat on their hands as the mighty American economy was sent to its doom. What is to be done to prevent a repeat?
PETER STANFORD
A new project allows crime victims to move on — by pardoning those who attacked them
DANIEL JOHNSON
A fine new tribute explains why Mahler matters more than ever
WILLIAM KRISTOL AND TIM MONTGOMERIE
William Kristol, founder-editor of the leading American conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, and Tim Montgomerie, founder-editor of the ConservativeHome website, discuss the similar problems facing the US and Britain with Standpoint Editor Daniel Johnson
DANIEL JOHNSON DOUGLAS MURRAY EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI TIM CONGDON JOSHUA ROZENBERG LIONEL SHRIVER MARA DELIUS GISELA STUART MICHAEL BURLEIGH ANONYMOUS FRANCES WEAVER DOMINIC LAWSON NEIL SCOLDING DAISY WAUGH |
JUSTIN MAROZZI
JULIE BINDEL
JULIA PETTENGILL
NICHI HODGSON
ANTHONY DANIELS
ANGELA LEVIN
MICHAEL WEISS
BEN JUDAH
KATHERINE BERGEN
NICHI HODGSON
NIGEL BIGGAR
ALLAN MASSIE
CHRIS WOODHEAD
GEOFFREY HILL
- The Zombie Argument that Refuses to Die
- Overrated: Dan Brown
- Forget 'Islamophobia'. Let's Tackle Islamism
- Time to Wise Up to the Muslim Brotherhood
- Decline and Fall of the History Men
- ONLINE ONLY: Academic Boycotts Teach Us Nothing
- The Banality of Hannah Arendt
- Britain Will Leave the European Union — Hélas!
- The Zombie Argument that Refuses to Die
- Overrated: Dan Brown
- Forget 'Islamophobia'. Let's Tackle Islamism
- Time to Wise Up to the Muslim Brotherhood
- Decline and Fall of the History Men
- ONLINE ONLY: Academic Boycotts Teach Us Nothing
- The Banality of Hannah Arendt
- Britain Will Leave the European Union — Hélas!