The best of the academic presses for spring 2024
The New Statesman’s highlights, from AI to the American right and Greek drama to goth culture.
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From Neel Mukherjee to Gavin Stamp: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Sunken Lands by Gareth E Rees and The Spinning House by Caroline Biggs.
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A reckoning for the British Museum
Haunted by scandal, the museum has become a “black hole” for artefacts. It’s time to bring it down, says Noah…
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Women writers and the lure of deep England
The country lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann were studies in class, conflict and creativity.
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Inside the rise of Ziggy Stardust
How a hairdresser from Beckenham entered the court of David Bowie.
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How to mend a broken economy
The laissez-faire era is over, says Will Hutton – the next Labour government must find growth through intervention.
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We are all Tom Ripley
In our culture of fraud and corruption, Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero is just another con man.
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How the Liverbirds disrupted the rock ’n’ roll boys’ club
The all-female band shone briefly in Sixties Hamburg, but were prevented from flourishing in a male-dominated scene.
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