The after effects of Northern Ireland’s “cash for ash” scandal
Northern Ireland’s RHI scandal feels so implausible that, in his new account of the fall of devolution, Sam McBride feels…
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The lessons of the epic quest for Blissymbolics: a universal written language
Though injustice relies on language, it does not simply exist in language, and language alone won’t be able to undo…
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Edward Platt’s The Great Flood: a study of our drenched isle
Taking in everywhere from Fenland to the Lake District, Gloucestershire to Northumbria, The Great Flood shows that hardly any corner…
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How to deal with a dictator
Why demonising Putin is tempting but wrong.
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Elton John’s Me: a bracingly open and spectacularly funny autobiography
Dignity is thrillingly cast aside in this riotously entertaining book full of premium celebrity tittle-tattle.
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Why the internet doesn’t mean “the end of forgetting”
Kate Eichorn’s new book The End of Forgetting fails to grasp the extent to which we are already haunted by our…
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“We are pretty invisible in fiction”: Bernardine Evaristo on power, racism and her wild Eighties days
The Booker Prize winner speaks to the New Statesman about her career and the state of modern fiction, three days after she…
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George Steiner and the death of the great cultural critic
From the archive: Susan Sontag, Harold Bloom, and Steiner once bestrode the public realm but their reputations have faded. What does…
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