Beyond Oscar Wilde: the unsung literary heroes of the early gay rights movement
Edward Carpenter, John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis were pioneers of their day – though their legacy has been overshadowed by the Irish playwright
July 2023
Top 10s
Top 10: good sex in fiction
Never mind heaving bosoms and whimpering grunts, some writers – from Sally Rooney to DH Lawrence – depict genuine, sometimes graphic, intimacy in all its forms
March 2023
A moment that changed me
A moment that changed me: I was a personal trainer – then my teenage cousin pushed me to go to university
The books of my life
Benjamin Myers: ‘My comfort read? Viz’
January 2023
Brief letters
Why Prince Harry’s book reminds me of DH Lawrence
Brief letters: Literary precedents | Pay for May | Freezing billionaires | A Brexit benefit | The best Welsh footballer | The briefest letter(s)
December 2022
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: Grey Evening by DH Lawrence
Down the rabbit hole
What links Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Walkabout and William Hurt?
November 2022
Lady Chatterley’s Lover review – sensuality as an almost religious revelation
Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell carry this idealistic, moving French version of DH Lawrence’s transgressive novel
The novelist on growing out of DH Lawrence, the joy of James Joyce and the sound of WB Yeats
August 2022
Look! We Have Come Through! by Lara Feigel review – in lockdown with DH Lawrence
‘Books bring us into being’: how writing about reading became an inspiring literary genre of its own
July 2022
Look! We Have Come Through! by Lara Feigel review – a woman in love
The author draws parallels between her own life and that of DH Lawrence, making this memoir-cum-self-help book more than a little mystifying
March 2022
And did those feet: 10 walks inspired by famous poets
Matching rich verse with great scenery, these strolls follow in the footsteps of some of our greatest wordsmiths, from William Blake to Carol Ann Duffy
September 2021
Tenderness by Alison MacLeod review – the triumph of Lady Chatterley
The story of DH Lawrence’s novel, from its inspirations to the landmark obscenity trial, is traced with love and skill
August 2021
Up close and dangerous: the irresistible allure of DH Lawrence
For decades he was wildly out of fashion, now DH Lawrence is everywhere – from novels and biographies to a new adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
June 2021
Burning Man by Frances Wilson review – meets DH Lawrence on his own terms
This extraordinary biography creates a mythology around the author’s wild spirit and his life’s quest for freedom and rebirth
May 2021
Observer book of the week
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence review – purgatory and paradise with a wild prophet
Frances Wilson’s book is as magnificently flawed as its subject – and a work of art in its own right
March 2021
Be more Alice! The fictional characters with lessons for lockdown
Anxiety, boredom, claustrophobic relationships... characters from Jane Eyre to Mrs Dalloway can provide vital insights into how to live in these anxious times, writes Josh Cohen
August 2020
Poetry and pretence: the phoney Native American who fooled Bloomsbury set
A new book reveals how the Canadian war poet Frank Prewett deceived his lover Siegfried Sassoon and the literary elite
March 2020
Brief letters
Spy novel takes on a whole new meaning
Brief letters: The Chinese Love Pavilion | Marmalade | Ultra high net worth | Vicious old men | Boris Johnson’s paternity leave
