What Simone De Beauvoir knew about loss
Sixty years ago, the French writer’s unflinching memoir of her mother’s death tested the limits of her existentialism.
By
Audio Long Reads
The best New Statesman reported features and essays, read aloud. New podcast episodes every Saturday.
Latest in
Audio Long Reads
George Monbiot: how I escape climate despair
The climate crisis is terrifying. But kayaking off the coast of Britain, I still find joy.
The 1922 committee: inside the Conservatives’ assassination bureau
The committee is adept at removing its prime ministers. What goes down when the chips are up?
The Spanish election reveals the future of Europe
Spain’s increasingly fractured politics has become a harbinger of the continent’s future.
The dawn of the Saudi century
If the kingdom’s model of capitalism without democracy thrives, there are consequences for us all.
A warning from the godfathers of AI
Conversations with the men who made the future
By
Inside the Conservative party’s radical right
At two recent conferences, the Tories’ faded past and dark future were on display.
By
Why Liverpool bet big on Eurovision
Will Europe’s biggest, campest party revive the “outsider city”? By Kate Mossman