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The women who challenged a stale, male philosophy

Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis and Philip Roth were the great literary provocateurs of their time, but where are today's?

Writers such as Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis and Philip Roth were the enfants terrible of their day. Who takes up that mantle now?

Houellebecq is back – but where are the British literary provocateurs?

Our literary lions were once pugnacious. Now they are too scared of being cancelled.

Penelope Lively: 'Beatrix Potter seemed so exotic, unlike my world of palm trees' | Penelope Lively

The author on reading Peter Rabbit in Egypt, the allure of Lawrence Durrell – and the humour of Stella Gibbons

A Stylish Art Dealer and a Trip to Italy

Our critic recommends old and new books.

Modern Books and Manuscripts

My happiness has given way to a paralysing melancholy

Jane Goodall Explains How Books Led Her to Live Among the Chimps

“There was no TV when I was a child. I learned from books — and nature. I read every book about animals I could find. Doctor Dolittle and Tarzan led me to dream about living with animals in Africa.”

In Britain, childlessness seems likely to return to 1920s levels

That will strain the care system, and perhaps change the culture | Britain

Mike Leigh: the naked truth

Starring David Thewlis as a violent misogynist, Naked suggested a change of style for a director best known for his distinctive brand of British social comedy, as this career-spanning feature from our November 1993 issue argued