Books of the year 2024
New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.
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David Peace: “There aren’t enough working-class stories around”
The great chronicler of England’s traumas on class, national identity and the importance of football novels.
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From Simon Jenkins to Tessa Hadley: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Patria: Lost Countries of South America by Laurence Blair and What Nails It by Greil Marcus.
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How to survive the age of anger
In Josh Cohen’s All the Rage, a psychoanalyst offers a path through the divisive world of online grievance and populist…
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The political afterlife of Paradise Lost
From white supremacists to black activists, readers have sought moral legitimacy in Milton’s epic poem.
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Why Rachel Cusk won the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction
Her novel Parade, slim but complex, is the latest product of a career dedicated to breaking new formal ground.
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Rachel Cusk wins the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize for “ferociously illuminating” novel Parade
The award for inventive fiction goes to a book replete with ideas about art, literature and freedom.
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The atrocity exhibition
Over a single night in 2015, terrorists killed 130 people in Paris. In Emmanuel Carrère’s account of the ensuing trial,…
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