James Baldwin in a time of riots
A century after the writer’s birth, the return of divisive racial politics has given his work renewed urgency.
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Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams on Tour is a hopeful, tear-jerking delight
This, for me, is the antidote to those appalling race riots. If only all those involved could be made to…
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Matt Pottinger: “We are now in the foothills of a great-power hot war”
The former US security official on what a second Trump presidency would mean for China, Taiwan and the West.
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Elon Musk wants us to have more children
Is demography the new front line of the culture wars?
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Slavoj Žižek’s war with the left
At 75, the “rock star” intellectual has alienated many. But is his politics a strange source of sanity?
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Who’s offended by Virginia Woolf?
How the writer’s Tavistock Square statue became a battleground for her legacy.
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What the Tories did to us
The essay collection The Conservative Effect explores how theatrical short-termism and specious rhetoric defined 14 years of mis-rule.
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Daniel Handler: Q&A: “My wife is too busy to paint my portrait”
The author on Grace Jones, making cocktails, and wanting to be a jellyfish.
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Generation Not Yet
A quietly incendiary new book reveals why millennials, paralysed by doubt, are struggling to make the leap into parenthood.
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The inventor of the Renaissance
Four and a half centuries after his death, we still owe our understanding of art’s greatest period to Giorgio Vasari.
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The NS Poem II: A Bit on the Side
A new poem by Craig Raine.
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The NS Poem I: Suspensions
A new poem by Kathleen Winter.
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Subscribers of the week: Teresa O’Connell and Jonathan James
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In search of a homeland
A personal story of myth, memory, Scotland and the longing for community.
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The prison system is broken
Prisons inspector Charlie Taylor on jails failing inmates and society.
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Why I feel like a literary Gareth Southgate
Also this week: My part in the great IT outage, and trying to impress Keir Starmer.
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The press doesn’t understand the public
The only institution to have had a more damaging election than the Tories was Fleet Street.
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A different kind of weather
The anti-complacency mindset that guided Labour in opposition has been taken successfully into government.
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Letter of the week: Humans vs resources
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The power tussle: Sue Gray vs Morgan McSweeney
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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