Christine Smallwood’s darkly funny novel of a stuck generation
The Life of the Mind smartly observes the lost futures of today’s thirty-somethings.
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How fear makes us human
The late David Graeber’s history of early human societies presents civilisation as a descent from anarchy into servility. But was…
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Isabel Waidner: “The British novel reproduces white middle-class values and aesthetics”
The author on their Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted book Sterling Karat Gold, humour, and why the novel has to change.
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“I’m an analogue human in a digital world”: Jeanette Winterson on joining Substack
In an exclusive interview with the New Statesman, the novelist talks about burning books, Dominic Cummings, and becoming Substack’s new…
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Bernard Cornwell: “I always had the insane ambition to be a novelist”
The bestselling author on how to start writing, his upbringing with the Peculiar People, and why he brought back Sharpe.
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Peter Thiel: Big Tech’s dark prophet
How the billionaire entrepreneur and libertarian grasped the fundamental truth of capitalism.
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Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir is a story of prejudice and perseverance
Manifesto reminds us of the importance of not losing hope.
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How science conquered climate change denial
Experts and activists battled the fossil fuel lobby to establish the facts of global warming.
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