Skip To Main Content
Cosmo Adair on Muck Rack

Cosmo Adair

As seen in: UnHerd, The Times, Literary Review
editorial assistant @unherd also ft. in @thetimes / @NewStatesman / @prospect_uk / @lit_review

Get in touch with Cosmo

Contact Cosmo, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Cosmo Adair’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

writer, hack, reviewer, etc.

Cosmo Adair’s Journalist Portfolio

The gospel according to Quentin Letts

The gospel according to Quentin Letts

With his novel Nunc!, the writer foots it back to biblical Jerusalem in a whimsical effort to come to terms w…

View article →
It's filth, absolute filth - read this book by Jonathan Meades

It's filth, absolute filth - read this book by Jonathan Meades

Empty Wigs, a thousand-page doorstopper of a novel, is a dazzling, bracingly offensive satire. What a breath …

View article →
Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet is pretentious - but what fun

Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet is pretentious - but what fun

Justine, the first of the four-part series, offers a captivating blend of sex, spies and mysticism. And so mu…

View article →
Cosmo Adair - Sorrows of Young Danny

Cosmo Adair - Sorrows of Young Danny

Cosmo Adair: Sorrows of Young Danny - The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst

View article →
A load of old Bolly - devilry and revelry at Cambridge

A load of old Bolly - devilry and revelry at Cambridge

'Dark academia', outrageous posh boys, the occult ... Kate van der Borgh's debut novel And He Shall Appear is…

View article →
A Sit Down with James Marriott

A Sit Down with James Marriott

By Cosmo Adair James Marriott is a columnist and podcast reviewer for The Times. The interview began with the…

View article →

Articles

Pendle: England’s broken bellwether Our atomized future starts here

|
By Cosmo Adair
| UnHerd Verified
Pendle Hill in Lancashire (Michelle Thompson/Getty) jonathan hinderLancashireMulticulturalismPendle The best place for taking in the whole of England’s most divided constituency is from its highest point: Pendle Hill. Even the Lord God thought so. Back in 1652, he sent George Fox clambering up its flowered banks to have a vision: that, down below, there was a great people to be gathered. Fox rushed back down and founded the Quaker movement.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Clavicular: the digital Dorian Gray He is an ugly cipher for our time

|
By Cosmo Adair
| UnHerd Verified
‘This is the Tragedy of Clavicular.‘ Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Clavicularlooksmaxxingmanosphere Every man has some picture that is the image of his secret life — his dream. People are often damned by theirs. Clavicular (née Braden Eric Peters, 17 December 2005) was haunted by an image of his own perfected face.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Modern England's lost catastrophe

|
By Cosmo Adair
| UnHerd Verified
A sign of things to come. (Gerry Penny/AFP/Getty) CumbriaFarmersPopulismRural EnglandTony Blair It has been 25 days since the rain last stopped in Longtown, but Joe has other reasons to be unhappy. “Tek a look at this,” he says, his mouth gaping. He leads me to a bench outside of a livestock auction mart. Inside his folders there are assiduous photographic studies of police helicopters, monoliths, and Hadrian’s Wall.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 10 articles