P.G. Wodehouse

Past lives

How playwrights resolve the problem of backstory

Another way is to refuse it altogether. Which may be how you arrive at absurd drama

Craig Raine

P.G. Wodehouse’s literary canon

His work’s modernity, making such innovative use of the main literary traditions of the West, would have been unimaginable in the nineteenth century

Charles Moore

Where will the vogue for censoring our best-loved authors lead?

It seems that the ‘revised’ titles are likely to become the norm

Alexander Larman

Twelve of the best novels about journalism

…that aren’t Scoop

John Sturgis

Drink

In the soup

An appreciation of cuisine’s kindest course

Jane Stannus