Margaret Drabble

Culture
Enemies of the estate: JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy gives us little to laugh at
By Margaret Drabble
04 October
Culture
Anita Desai's The Artist of Disappearance is profoundly elegiac
By Margaret Drabble
08 August
Culture
“Perpetuity”: a short story by Margaret Drabble
A tale of temptation, disappointment and breaking free, written exclusively for the New Statesman.

By Margaret Drabble
11 July
Culture
"The Isles of the Blessed": a short story by Margaret Drabble
By Margaret Drabble
29 December
Politics
Margaret Drabble’s hopes for the New Year
By Margaret Drabble
29 December
Culture
Still lost in Austen: a new collection allows Margaret Drabble to revisit her novels
Jane Austen’s literary heirs are innumerable –– and her readers are ardent to the point of hysteria.

By Margaret Drabble
21 June
Culture
Dutch Courage: The letters of Vincent Van Gogh show a man who craved intellectual companionship
By Margaret Drabble
18 January
Politics
Diary: Margaret Drabble
I may become addicted to athletics by 2012.

By Margaret Drabble
03 September
Culture
Mummy's boy: a new collection by Andrew Motion delves into the poet's childhood
By Margaret Drabble
18 September
Culture
The age of publicity: David Lodge on Henry James
By Margaret Drabble
12 June