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Thank you, William Boyd. Today I squeezed my way on to a crowded train. Luckily I opened the NS to your 'Between two eternities' (What Makes Us Human?, 11 July) [...]

David Selbourne's obsessive article on 'The challenge of Islam' (2 May) almost congratulates jihadists. I prefer to live 'on the ground' in Mona Siddiqui's world ('The Arabisation of Islam', 2 [...]

For once I have to disagree with Felix Martin (Real Money, 18 April). Yes, the hipsters of Shoreditch and the Santa Clara Valley do suffer from technological solutionism (the belief [...]

Several times this year and last, I have had a meal out only to read Will Self's description of the same meal a week or two later. This was enjoyable [...]

Please thank Robin Ince for bringing back some emotional memories ('The quiet rebellion over libraries', 24 January). For this bright working-class boy from a home full of life but largely [...]

David Blanchflower's column 'What the US can teach Oxbridge' (20 December) reminded me of an interview a senior Oxbridge administrator gave after another batch of impeccably qualified comprehensive-school pupils had [...]

Your 22 November issue ('Advantage Cameron') was a bit of a roller-coaster ride. First, David Marquand's beautifully compact survey of recent economic and political events. Reading it left me hopeful [...]

Just writing to say how much I enjoyed the 11 October special issue, guest-edited by Melvyn Bragg: great articles, stories and columns. I took it away on a short break [...]

Reading Laurie Penny's 'Proud to say nope to the Pope' (20 September) on the train, I realised I was agreeing out loud. I did the same reading her column about [...]