Han Smith: “Fiction that takes risks shows how electric our minds can be”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the power of portraits, living language, and Russia’s silenced history.
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Colin Ward’s school without walls
The New Statesman columnist and anarchist was a proponent of radical social change that put the most vulnerable first.
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Ali Smith’s data dystopia
Her mind-expanding new novel Gliff draws battle lines between art, language and Big Tech.
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From Miriam Gold to Bendor Grosvenor: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark and Recognising the Stranger by Isabella Hammad.
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Jonathan Buckley: “In my novel, there is no Fine Writing”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on voice, Muriel Spark and why he chose to discard the “writerly” register.
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Claud Cockburn, the original guerrilla journalist
His reporting was fuelled by a cool contempt for authority.
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Remembering Paul Bailey
The novelist and New Statesman contributor, who has died aged 87, was one of the pre-eminent English writers.
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Lisa Marie Presley takes us behind Graceland’s velvet curtain
From Here to the Great Unknown – a memoir of life as Elvis’s daughter – is a story of generational…
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