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Jonathan Sperber’s The Age of Interconnection surveys the second half of the 20th century but fails to explain the ideas…
ByJustin Gregg’s witty exploration of animal intelligence is a useful guide – but there is more to human life than…
ByRhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s memoir of adopting a kitten doubles as a study of anxiety, parenthood and purpose.
ByAlso featuring the new poetry collection by Hannah Sullivan and Hotel Milano by Tim Parks.
ByOur choice of the year’s essential fiction and non-fiction.
ByHe survived addiction and a suicide attempt to return to victory in the ring. Now the philosopher-fighter considers the “void”…
ByOnce, stories helped us make sense of reality, argues Peter Brooks – now they have devoured it.
ByFive exceptional collections published this year.
ByIn their glory days magazines such as NME and Melody Maker defined youth culture – but the quality of the…
ByIn his new book, A Revolution Betrayed, Peter Hitchens overstates the merits of selection in state education.
ByA new book of pictures and drawings is an attempt to help adults recall what the world looks like to…
ByAlso featuring Bandit Country by James Conor Patterson and Looking To Sea by Lily Le Brun.
ByThe clash between Caesar and Cato offers lessons for today, but also reveals the gulf between modern and classical thought.
ByIn these retrospectively constructed “entries”, Hancock casts himself as the hero of both the Covid crisis and his love life.…
ByLove, the glory days of music portraits, and 1970s stock car racing: the best photography publications of 2022.
BySiddharta Mukherjee’s new study of how cells work reveals the complexities of the human body – and the science that…
ByNew Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.
ByHow the Victorians bequeathed us their ideology of technoscientific progress.
ByThe memoir of the American creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood is a rich story of drink, drugs and creative…
ByAlso featuring a biography of Peter Beard and White Torture by Narges Mohammadi.
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