How the alt-right shifted the Overton window
Andrew Marantz’s Antisocial: How Online Extremists Broke America is a refreshingly insightful account of how the alt-right used technology to…
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John Lloyd’s latest book is a devastating argument against Scottish independence
In Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, Lloyd exposes what the SNP knows, but will not admit: the dire economic consequences of leaving…
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How public figures are spending the Covid-19 lockdown
Emily Maitlis, Jon Snow, David Lammy, Elif Shafak, Juliet Stevenson and others on their new routines and what they’ve learned during…
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How Mohammed bin Salman became the world’s most powerful millennial
The extraordinary rise of the elusive, impulsive crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
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Adrienne Miller’s In the Land of Men: a literary memoir of Manhattan magazine publishing
Stories of an “improbable gatekeeper”: a young female editor in an age of great male narcissists.
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From the NS archive: What remains of Aneurin Bevan
26 October 1962: Prompted by Michael Foot's biography of Aneurin Bevan, John Freeman gathers his thoughts about the father of…
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The rules of attraction
Two surveys of sex and seduction show that not much has changed.
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The Decameron – the 14th-century Italian book that shows us how to survive coronavirus
Giovanni Boccaccio’s work taught citizens how to maintain mental wellbeing in times of epidemics and isolation.
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