How hormones rule our lives
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A bloody American ancestry
Advancing through fear and violence, amassing wealth and power, the Blood dynasty embodied the untamed spirits of a young nation.
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From Willy Vlautin to Corinne Fowler: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Bullet: A Memoir by Tom Lee and Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill.
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What the Greeks teach us about suicide
The great tragedians’ writings on suffering, stigma and survival can help guide our own struggles with assisted dying.
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Alba de Céspedes’s life of resistance
Informed by the novelist’s fight against Fascism in Italy, Her Side of the Story is a remarkable investigation into selfhood.
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From Sunjeev Sahota to Jonn Elledge: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Dispersals by Jessica J Lee and All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld
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Golf’s wealth wars
The influx of cash that came with the breakaway LIV series exposed the fault lines that run through all professional…
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From Marilynne Robinson to Ross King: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson and England: Seven Myths that Changed a Country by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears.
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The rise of the worried well
Caroline Crampton’s history of hypochondria shows how the internet has exacerbated health anxiety.
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Theresa May’s legacy of chaos
Tim Shipman shows how May’s charisma-free caution over Brexit made the rise of Boris Johnson inevitable.
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The perils of polyamory
Molly Roden Winter’s riveting, explicit memoir More makes the case for open marriage as self-help – but her logic is…
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How America bought up Britain
From assets to businesses, the high street to the internet, US investors have a stranglehold on Britain’s economy.
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Your fandom isn’t funny
Britain can’t afford to let politics fans trivialise how the country is run.
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Andrew O’Hagan’s maximum city
Caledonian Road is a brick of a novel lobbed at the towering glass houses of London.
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The fight to save the fractured Union
In an age of political alienation and resurgent nationalism, can the United Kingdom still hold?
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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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