Max Dunbar

The phrase ‘the special relationship’ has become a sarcastic cliche in this country but it has a deeper meaning.

I was sorry to hear of the death of Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian artist, author and filmmaker.

In The Library of Traumatic Memory there are particular words that recur again and again in the text: verdegris heliotrope microcyst masonic copper coccyx obsidian Listed like that from top to bottom gives you a sense of Neil Jordan’s novel, written in sh…

The New York Times has dropped a freelance critic, author Alex Preston, for using AI in a book review.

In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson wrote: ‘Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas.

I saw a clip of Sally Rooney speaking in Amsterdam that I have been pondering over ever since.

I finished Lily King‘s extraordinary Heart the Lover last night and immediately read the reviews I’d come across while preparing to write this one.

If the doors to the Cheers bar stand always open, and everyone inside knows your name, then the gateway to the successor show is a little harder to navigate.

Much has been written about our love for true crime, most of this framed as a modern morbidity.

ID cards are a bad idea that never goes away.