Books of the year
The best reading of 2020, according to New Statesman friends and contributors.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
The best reading of 2020, according to New Statesman friends and contributors.
ByThe music critic, author and librettist on his Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Mr Beethoven, and using fiction to better understand history.
ByThe English novelist on the power of innovative fiction, the “sad but luminous muddle” of being alive, and his Goldsmiths-shortlisted work The…
ByThe Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novelist on writing about older women, “dreary, middlebrow” literature and why she volunteers for Dying with Dignity.
ByThe Australian novelist on fifth novel Meanwhile in Dopamine City, surveillance capitalism and why Beowulf deserves a retrospective Goldsmiths Prize.
ByThe Chinese novelist on her Goldsmiths-shortlisted book A Lover’s Discourse, her love of Roland Barthes, and why fragmented narratives best represent…
ByThe Secret Garden has enchanted readers for more than a century. But few pay attention to the remarkabe life of…
ByLee is known for her landmark biographies of writers such as Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton. Now, she has taken…
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