To be a Neet is to feel a singular shame and self-loathing, a sense of being apart from everybody else

From our February / March issue, Joseph Williams reviews Brandon Taylor's latest novel, Minor Black Figures.

Michael Hordern and Anthony Sher in the TV adaptation of Malcom Bradbury's 1975 novel. (Credit: BBC)

I tend not to make a habit of standing in a field in the rain. Most days I’d rather do anything else, like wait for a bus or lick a thousand postage stamps.

Joseph Williams on the birth of the creative writing course

Hip-hop scholar, esteemed illustrator and all round head Ted Draws holds down a killer 2 hour monthly slot on Tuesday afternoons. Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fi...