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Christopher Hirst pays tribute to one of Britain's most important chefs ...  read more »

"Using adverbs is a mortal sin," declares Elmore Leonard. "Prayer might work," offers Margaret Atwood. Does any of this help? Molly Young weighs in ...  read more »

Lori Gottlieb is raising a furore among women with her new book "Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr Good Enough". But her original article in the Atlantic provoked some sympathy from Adelle Waldman, whose response is republished here ...  read more »

When "Ragtime" was first adapted for the stage, it was a runaway success. A new production just closed on Broadway, millions of dollars in debt. James C. Taylor explains what didn't work ...  read more »

When Wallace Stevens died, few of his Connecticut insurance colleagues even knew he was a poet. With the recent release of his "Selected Poems", Ryan Ruby revisits a man who proved that to be a great poet, no great experience is necessary ...  read more »

Drinking wine is a serious business, according to Roger Scruton, an academic philosopher. Anthony Gottlieb reviews his book "I Drink Therefore I Am" ...  read more »

Known as the “nine-day queen”, Lady Jane Grey has become an iconic Tudor victim: virginal, sweet and beheaded at 16, largely because of the machinations of her evil mother. But is any of this true? Leanda de Lisle discovers otherwise ...  read more »

Colin Firth is outstanding, as he shows in “A Single Man”, for which he has just won a Bafta. So why isn’t he at his best more often? Isabel Lloyd asks him ...  read more »

Though canvasback ducks have fallen from favour since Edith Wharton's time, they remain delicious, "with the gamy taste and muscular chew of wild meat," writes Jon Fasman in his latest column about meals in books ...  read more »

Women are often the cruellest critics of other female writers. Where does this anger come from, and at what expense? Emily Gould considers her own frustrations, as reader and writer ...  read more »