The Weekend Essay In search of a language of loss Is there a correct way to mourn? When my mother died, I scoured the literature of grief for answers By Johanna Thomas-Corr
Culture The Philip Pullman affair shows social media is where good arguments go to die By Johanna Thomas-Corr
The purpose of sex Lillian Fishman’s bold and searching debut novel, Acts of Service, questions the meaning of desire and introduces a major… By Johanna Thomas-Corr
My abortion showed me that women in Britain are far from free We are told that the overturning of Roe vs Wade means nothing for liberal Britain, but the impulse to… By Johanna Thomas-Corr
What the “men don’t read novels” debate gets wrong about fiction Instead of turning literature into an arena for virtue-signalling and culture wars, let’s make room for complexity, mischief and… By Johanna Thomas-Corr
Ottessa Moshfegh and the tedium of depravity The American author’s new novel of medieval brutality aims for the Marquis de Sade but ends up closer to… By Johanna Thomas-Corr
The joyless rise of Anna Wintour Amy Odell’s new account of the iron-fisted Vogue editor’s ascent struggles to find the human being behind the shades. By Johanna Thomas-Corr
Men watch porn at work to shame female colleagues. I know because it happened to me The Tory MP who viewed pornography in the House of Commons reminded me of the abusive and sexist workplace… By Johanna Thomas-Corr
Julian Barnes’s baffling new novel attempts to imagine a world without Christianity The ghost of a more interesting narrative hovers over Elizabeth Finch, which is a novel not of ideas but… By Johanna Thomas-Corr
The marriage delusion A new memoir describes it as “a slowly unfolding apocalypse”. Why are we so reluctant to reimagine matrimony? By Johanna Thomas-Corr