Subtitles be gone!

Robert McCrum of the The Guardian recently called for a cease and desist on the use of subtitles in books. He cited a newly published biography of William Golding, which includes the admittedly odd and somewhat limiting subtitle: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies.

I'd hate to think that a biography of me would be subtitled: The man who wrote Something Missing. Sure, it's true, but doesn't this subtitle imply that I didn't do much else?

McCrum also cites the use of forgotten subtitles in...