TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features Daniel Karlin about his twelve-month abstinence from the printed word. As one of his friends remarked, he must have been the first person to make a New Year’s resolution to read less.

Life beyond literature

A year without reading By Daniel Karlin

What lies ahead for fiction?

AI, literary theory and traditional storytelling By Benjamin Markovits

Maggots as meat

The ethics of industrial insect farming By Simone Gubler

A right to choose

Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages By Elizabeth Abbott