Sarah Ditum

In her new book, You Won’t Get Free of It, the New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv delves deep into the lives of mothers and daughters, finding true stories of love and dysfunction

When I heard last year that Sky was making a documentary series about Katie Price, my first thought was that they were taking a risk: on her social

All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough This article is taken from the June 2026 issue of The Critic.

The Reform UK leader has made a career of making his side look like the fun side to be on, but that was the old Farage; a different, darker side of him is now taking to the airwaves, says Sarah Ditum

Songwriter Neil Hannon (photographs by Jacobo Medrano) Since 1989, Neil Hannon has been the sole constant member of The Divine Comedy

There aren’t many novelists who can give you fake exorcisms, ghosts in bottles and crazed dictators in sub-300 pages — but Scarlett Thomas does it in The Runner

In his latest collection, The Land and Its People, the great comic essayist gets bitten by a dog and pokes fun at the perpetually offended

Charli xcx is having a death summer. Music, Fashion, Film — her first proper album since 2024's season-defining Brat , and her second if you include

Charli xcx’s death drive

The embattled former Cambridge professor’s autobiography, Great and Unfortunate Things, feels precision-tooled to flatter the biases of the sappiest white liberals