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Helen Simpson

January 2023

  • Katherine Mansfield.

    The outsider: why Katherine Mansfield still divides opinion 100 years after her death

    Shunned by the Bloomsbury group, Katherine Mansfield was one of the 20th century’s most fearless and funny writers. And she paid dearly for the freedoms she claimed

April 2016

  • Paula Rego’s Come to Me from her Jane Eyre series. This is the final work in Rego’s series and shows Jane in her later years. ‘Come to me’ refers to the blind Rochester calling her.

    Jane Eyre by Sarah Waters, Margaret Drabble, Jeanette Winterson and others

    ‘The shock and thrill of discovering this book, aged 13, continues to run in my veins’ … On the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, writers and artists reflect on her greatest creation

November 2013

  • Illustration by Rachel Gannon

    Writers and critics on the best books of 2013

    Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this year

May 2012

  • Wormwood Scrubs prison

    Short story: Torremolinos

    By Helen Simpson

June 2006

  • Angela Carter

    Femme fatale: Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber

    A darkly erotic reworking of Bluebeard’s Castle, a bawdy Puss in Boots and a sado-masochistic version of Little Red Riding Hood - Angela Carter’s subversive take on traditional fairy stories in The Bloody Chamber is as shocking today as when the collection first appeared in 1979, writes Helen Simpson.
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