![The memeification of George Orwell The memeification of George Orwell](https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2023/05/12/George-Orwell-464x348.jpg)
The memeification of George Orwell
The writer has become a national treasure, moral arbiter and begetter of biographies: do we need a new one?
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
The writer has become a national treasure, moral arbiter and begetter of biographies: do we need a new one?
ByThe poet on the works of Leslie Feinberg, being photographed by Wolfgang Tillmans, and James Joyce.
ByAlso featuring Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me? by Rob Burley and The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan.
ByJoanna Biggs’ A Life of One’s Own looks to the letters and journals of literary women for guidance. Can they…
ByI tend to get on with the medical profession, but her demeanour suggested an even broader hinterland than usual.
ByAri Aster’s black comedy about malign maternal influence is full of cod-psychology that makes Psycho look like a Mother’s Day…
ByPlease email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman’s subscriber of the week.
ByA new series by Jamie Bartlett investigates a charity and its founders, and becomes a cautionary tale of social media…
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
BySince her US Open victory, the 20-year-old has been pursued by a hurricane of hype not remotely of her own…
ByOnce a symbol of black liberation, Haiti has collapsed into anarchy. Now many see foreign intervention as their only hope.
ByAn American lady leaned in and whispered, “Are you going to the coronation?” This is where things went wrong.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByLed by hawks in the Biden administration, liberal democracies are stumbling into a commercial cold war with Beijing.
ByA new poem by Maya C Popa.
ByThe “coalition of chaos” attack line won’t work but Labour still faces big questions over its plans for government.
ByKeir Starmer can credibly claim he is on a path to No 10, but it is uncertain whether his party…
ByIn a festival of geopolitics, money, culture and high camp, the proud outsider city spies a chance for renewal
ByThe plant has a habit of flowering when we least expect it, and has turned many humans into magpie-like collectors.
By