Notes on trying
For readers and writers, novels require enormous effort. Why do we persist in seeking meaning in their pages?
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Dispatches from the land of Long Covid
My search for a cure took me into the strange waters of wellness.
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The new world disorder
A new binary of opposing powers has emerged, with the forces of chaos ranged against the West.
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The secrets of frost
Frost doesn’t merely transform our surroundings – it alters the kind of attention we pay to the world.
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My reckoning with charismatic Christianity
There is an emptiness that the Church says only God can fill. But is He there?
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This Christmas, it is hard to watch as our ancestral lands fragment
Israelis, Palestinians, Ukrainians and Armenians around the world have had to witness horrifying events from afar.
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The NS Poem: Sabotage
A new poem by Rebecca Farmer.
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Lexicon of loss
The history of the elegy reveals how the poetry of grief has the power to trouble, console and unite.
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Israelis and Palestinians have been taken back to the traumas of 1948
Reporting from the front line in Gaza, I have seen the destruction wrought on all sides by this long conflict.
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Amid multiple crises, EU leaders cling to a misplaced optimism
Economic turmoil is on the horizon – the scariest of all outcomes for Europe would be a Trump victory.
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Across Europe, far-right parties are rising
As the continent undergoes a rightwards shift, the liberal dream of open borders is dying.
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Robert Jenrick furthers his own migration to the upper Tory ranks
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: The Jewish left will continue
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Britain deserves better in 2024
A Labour government would change the social atmosphere for the better and offer the hope of a new start.
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Writing for children is hard, and they need good books more than ever
Children are ravenously hungry for ideas. We writers have a duty to provide them.
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Subscriber of the Week: Jack Frost
Please email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
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Hana Videen: “It’s a pretty silly idea that there’s a pure English”
The author on the evolution of language.
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The hypocrisy of Rishi’s Right
Also this week: the power of the Nativity, and why books are like batteries.
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The visions of Werner Herzog
In creating wild and strange new worlds, the German film-maker reveals the truth of our own.
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What it means to be German
Frank Trentmann’s history reveals how modern Germany found a new moral purpose after the horrors of Nazism.
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