No apology is ever enough for the digital mob
The most sorry person this week? American poet Anders Carlson-Wee.
A reply to my critics: Don’t fight racism with racism
Dear 2016 WriteNow mentees, Thanks so much for your open letter to me. It seems only good manners for me…
When diversity means uniformity
I’d been suffering under the misguided illusion that the purpose of mainstream publishers like Penguin Random House was to sell…
I like a fight too much. That’s why I’ll never go on social media
Twitter outrage about a few sectarian mugs has left Lionel Shriver glad to be in her fantasy world offline
Why catastrophising is my idea of a good time
When, on a test of general knowledge, the highly educated score far worse than chimpanzees, university degrees may be overrated…
Why catastrophising is my idea of a good time
When, on a test of general knowledge, the highly educated score far worse than chimpanzees, university degrees may be overrated…
Can you prove you’re not a racist?
These days throwing insults often just means ‘I disagree with you’
The all give and no take of US taxes
Last week, the New York Times ran a very un-New-York-Times-y article, ‘Resentment Grows Over Who Gets Health Care Aid’. It…
Why not ban artists who forget to feed their cats or recycle?
Sometimes a picture — the big picture — is worth more than a thousand words. Consider this Art vs Artist,…
Ikea’s real genius is making furniture disposable
We love it when things fall apart. It's an excuse to go shopping
The lie that is recycling
So much of what we carefully separate just ends up wasting energy
We don’t need to talk about gun control. After the horror of Vegas, we need to be dumbstruck
To my embarrassment, ever since my novel We Need to Talk About Kevin was published in 2003, I’ve been a…
Tear down statues? At this rate, we’ll have to rename New York
Growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina, I took the monuments around the state capitol for granted. The first Confederate soldier…
