Articles by subject: literature

Diary: Best of the worst (by Robin Ince, July/August 2010 ): There are no bad books, just special ones says Robin Ince
The listeners (by Les Back, July/August 2010 ): Les Back on the ordinary virtues of paying attention
Gothic revival (by Nick Mamatas, May/June 2009 ): Outsider, troublemaker, genteel bum – Nick Mamatas celebrates the legacy of Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the perverse
Green eyed monster (by Sally Feldman, March/April 2009 ): Is jealousy an intrinsic part of our make-up? asks Sally Feldman. Or a weakness to be vanquished?
Fallen Angels by Harold Bloom (by Jonathan Derbyshire, November/December 2007 ): Jonathan Derbyshire on Harold Bloom's angels
Native son (by Murray Pittock, September/October 2007 ): 175 years after the death of Scotland’s most celebrated novelist, Murray Pittock asks if Walter Scott was an enemy of the Enlightenment, or its champion