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Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries are a delusional piece of self-aggrandising fan fiction

In these retrospectively constructed “entries”, Hancock casts himself as the hero of both the Covid crisis and his love life.…

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Siddharta Mukherjee’s new study of how cells work reveals the complexities of the human body – and the science that…

By Henry Marsh

New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.

By New Statesman

The author says she prefers to read non-fiction because she senses so many novelists holding back due to “social censure”.…

By Tomiwa Owolade

Also featuring The Story of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski and Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow.

By Jeremy Cliffe, Oscar Williams, Christiana Bishop and Michael Prodger

How the Victorians bequeathed us their ideology of technoscientific progress.

By Duncan Bell

Katherine Rundell’s new book is a treasury of extraordinary animals endangered by human negligence and greed.

By Kathleen Jamie

The memoir of the American creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood is a rich story of drink, drugs and creative…

By Erica Wagner